{"id":1001,"date":"2008-10-09T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2008-10-09T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T15:00:12","slug":"links-for-october-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/links-for-october-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for October 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of the more important reading items and links for October 9th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122342389157013377.html?mod=yahoo_hs&amp;ru=yahoo\">Should we bail out our kids?<\/a> &#8211; Many young adults are heavily leveraged. Average student loans among the two-thirds of college undergraduates who have borrowed rose an estimated 5% in the past year alone, to $22,000, says the nonprofit Project on Student Debt; many also have credit-card debt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=agLTczGz6bl8&amp;refer=home\">Buffett&#39;s GE and Goldman shares sink<\/a> &#8211; Goldman and GE also sold Buffett a combined $8 billion in preferred shares that pay a 10 percent dividend, allowing his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to earn $80<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20081008-718232.html\">Short Sell Ban is liftted<\/a> &#8211; Gates found the targeted stocks posted a 12.9% median decline over the period, compared with a 17.8% drop for the Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s 500 Index and a 23% decline for the Russell 2000 Index.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122345583528614761.html\">Aftershocks Felt From Iceland &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; Iceland&#39;s economy boomed in recent years, propelled by easy credit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/newsevents\/press\/monetary\/20081008a.htm\">Fed to save the Day?<\/a> &#8211; Joint statement by central banks regarding global rate cuts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of the more important reading items and links for October 9th : Should we bail out our kids? &#8211; Many young adults are heavily leveraged. Average student loans among the two-thirds of college undergraduates who have borrowed rose an estimated 5% in the past year alone, to $22,000, says the nonprofit Project on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,262],"tags":[485,483],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-recentreads","tag-links","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}