{"id":68,"date":"2008-10-02T00:05:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T08:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-10-02T00:05:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T08:05:50","slug":"margin-call-on-the-roll-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Margin call on the roll call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress and the Fed seem to be wiggling around, using a day&#8217;s worth of stock market activity to tell them how and when to &#8220;invest&#8221; $700,000,000,000. I guess that the chart broke through a price resistance barrier on the downside and signaled a buy to our duly elected day-traders.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;bailout,&#8221; if done honestly, will use borrowed money. That raises an interesting question: What happens if the market value of the &#8220;troubled assets&#8221; goes down? Does that mean that Congress will get a margin call?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress and the Fed seem to be wiggling around, using a day&#8217;s worth of stock market activity to tell them how and when to &#8220;invest&#8221; $700,000,000,000. I guess that the chart broke through a price resistance barrier on the downside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=68\">Continue reading <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":[8,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggy-things","category-humor","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}