{"id":1573,"date":"2009-01-13T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2009-01-13T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:35:42","slug":"links-for-january-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/links-for-january-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for January 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for January 14th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123187139951577963.html\">Adviser Who Made Daring Getaway Is in Police Custody<\/a> &#8211; An investment adviser who apparently staged an elaborate plot to escape allegations of financial fraud was in police custody Tuesday night in Florida. WHY is it always FLORIDA?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123125518158857415.html?mod=loomia&amp;loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r1:c0.0301923:b0\">Merckle&#39;s Empire in Tatters, German Billionaire Takes Life<\/a> &#8211; The suicide of the 74-year-old multibillionaire, whose holding company had roughly &euro;30 billion, or $40 billion, in annual revenue, is one of several deaths of businesspeople tied to the global financial crisis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123176998860973411.html?mod=article-outset-box\">Bush Defends His Tenure, Concedes Some &#39;Disappointments&#39; &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; He denied that the U.S. has lost moral standing around the world as a result of its response to 9\/11, except among &quot;some of the elite.&quot; He added that &quot;people still understand America stands for freedom, that America is &#8212; is a country that provides such great hope.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123177778175873781.html\">U.S. Seeks Rest of Bailout Cash<\/a> &#8211; Mr. Obama, speaking to reporters Monday, said he asked Mr. Bush to request the remaining money because he didn&#39;t want to be caught without emergency funds if financial markets weaken further.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aiitlFqCkf0Q&amp;refer=home\">More fallout of commodity rout<\/a> &#8211; Blackstone Group LP&rsquo;s $25 billion credit hedge fund, plans to closing its Asia investment desk after failing to find attractive opportunities in the region, two people familiar with the matter said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for January 14th : Adviser Who Made Daring Getaway Is in Police Custody &#8211; An investment adviser who apparently staged an elaborate plot to escape allegations of financial fraud was in police custody Tuesday night in Florida. WHY is it always FLORIDA? Merckle&#39;s Empire in Tatters, German [&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":[218,483],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-recentreads","tag-linkfest","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\/1573","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=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}