{"id":1214,"date":"2020-02-07T06:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2020-02-07T06:32:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:32:41","slug":"paul-krugman-the-triumph-of-fiscal-hypocrisy-what-we-can-learn-from-trumps-deficitpalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/paul-krugman-the-triumph-of-fiscal-hypocrisy-what-we-can-learn-from-trumps-deficitpalooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Krugman: The Triumph of Fiscal Hypocrisy &#8211; What we can learn from Trump\u2019s deficitpalooza."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Republicans used the pretense that they cared about fiscal  responsibility to engage in de facto economic sabotage as long as a  Democrat was in the White House. Then they abandoned the pretense and  opened up the spending taps as soon as one of their own was in power.  And far from paying a price for their duplicity, they are being  politically rewarded. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/06\/opinion\/economy-republicans-deficit.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"New York Times (opens in a new tab)\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans used the pretense that they cared about fiscal responsibility to engage in de facto economic sabotage as long as a Democrat was in the White House. Then they abandoned the pretense and opened up the spending taps as soon as one of their own was in power. And far from paying a price for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}