{"id":1196,"date":"2008-12-09T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2008-12-09T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T04:00:13","slug":"links-for-december-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/links-for-december-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for December 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of the more important reading items and links for December 9th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7B6CC15EC6%2DD95D%2D4EDD%2DACEE%2D9EFAB5129AE9%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Tough times call for tough talk with loved ones about finances<\/a> &#8211; No, tough times call for a talk with your financial advisor who is sitting there hoping things will get better!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB122870048294587141.html?mod=9_0002_b_online_exclusives_weekday_r1\">The Trillion-Dollar Rally &#8211; Barrons.com<\/a> &#8211; As money gushes from Washington, it&#39;s helping to fuel a nice rally &#8212; in a bear market.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/Hong-Kong-bird-flu-alert\/story.aspx?guid=%7BA9C10D34%2DF644%2D446A%2D8E1A%2DB5B375C727ED%7D\">Hong Kong on bird flu alert, 80,000 chickens killed<\/a> &#8211; More good news! The Hong Kong government has shut down all poultry farms and markets, killed 80,000 chickens and halted chicken imports from mainland China<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122887203792493481.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">AIG Faces $10 Billion in Losses on Trades<\/a> &#8211; he details of the trades go beyond what AIG has explained to investors about the nature of its risk-taking operations, which led to the firm&#39;s near-collapse in September.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid=%7B3B752528%2DF229%2D49E8%2DBEEF%2D8A5A4EEAD4AA%7D&amp;siteid=rss\">Two of three firms plan &#39;no changes&#39; in employment: Manpower<\/a> &#8211; he employment outlook for January, February and March is essentially flat, on a seasonally-adjusted basis, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of the more important reading items and links for December 9th : Tough times call for tough talk with loved ones about finances &#8211; No, tough times call for a talk with your financial advisor who is sitting there hoping things will get better! The Trillion-Dollar Rally &#8211; Barrons.com &#8211; As money gushes [&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-1196","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\/1196","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=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}