{"id":2790,"date":"2009-06-01T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2009-06-01T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T20:59:21","slug":"the-lords-of-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"The Lords of Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Dyan Moon<\/p>\n<p>Spent this morning planting egg plant, building trellises for the peas and getting familiar with the current state of the garden.<\/p>\n<p>A note from my sister said the presentation of her thesis work in Athens (Greece) went well.\u00a0 Quite an accomplishment.\u00a0 Way to go, Mary!<\/p>\n<p>Still in a post-vacation fuzz, lost naps catching up with me.<\/p>\n<p>Got the docent sign up form for next year and it has to be in by tomorrow.\u00a0 Since it&#8217;s a first come, first choice deal, I&#8217;m not gonna get my first picks this year for the first time since I started as a guide back in 2001.\u00a0 It means I&#8217;ll most likely miss touring the Louvre show.\u00a0 Darn it.<\/p>\n<p>Reading a book right now called the Lords of Finance.\u00a0 It explains in detail the precursors to the great depression and the central bankers who made it worse.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why this kind of reading appeals to me, but it does.\u00a0 The story so far shows the intimate linkage between World War I and the economic devastation wrought by it and the subsequent market failure in 1929.\u00a0 Reparations by Germany and the damaged economies of France and Great Britain after the war created a chaotic finanical situation in which policy decisions by central banks factored more than ever before.\u00a0 Some of those decisions made things a lot worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Dyan Moon Spent this morning planting egg plant, building trellises for the peas and getting familiar with the current state of the garden. A note from my sister said the presentation of her thesis work in Athens (Greece) went well.\u00a0 Quite an accomplishment.\u00a0 Way to go, Mary! Still in a post-vacation fuzz, lost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lords of Finance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1633,168],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-lords-of-finance","tag-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}