{"id":2729,"date":"2009-03-21T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2009-03-21T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T20:00:01","slug":"links-for-march-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/links-for-march-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 21st :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/goldman-rejected-offers-settle-aig\/story.aspx?guid=%7BD7078A9C-86CD-482E-A977-D5FCB0A0F827%7D&amp;dist=TNMostRead&amp;print=true&amp;dist=printMidSection\">Goldman rejected offers to settle AIG trades at discount<\/a> &#8211; Why should they? The government will step in with taxpayer money and pay anyway&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSTRE52E06H20090316\">China&#8217;s last eunuch spills sex secrets<\/a> &#8211; Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting&#39;s eyes in old age &#8212; the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSTRE52J48B20090320\">U.S. regulator probing &quot;rampant Ponzimonium&quot;<\/a> &#8211; Or is it Madoffmionium?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aNgNyQTGUv6E\">Barclays May Lend as Much as 80% to Buyer of Its Ishares Unit<\/a> &#8211; How is this a sale?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/rss\/story\/*http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/topnews\/*http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/090319\/aig_countrywide_lawsuit.html\">AIG unit sues Countrywide over loan losses (AP)<\/a> &#8211; More sharks eating sharks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aaF1LJ7eLE2M\">U.S. Leading Economic Indicators Probably Dropped in February<\/a> &#8211; Someting is bugging the FED<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/newsevents\/press\/monetary\/20090318a.htm\">FOMC Policy Statement<\/a> &#8211; Federal Reserve increases its purchases of mortgage backed securities and expands the TALF leaving interest rates unchanged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 21st : Goldman rejected offers to settle AIG trades at discount &#8211; Why should they? The government will step in with taxpayer money and pay anyway&#8230;. China&#8217;s last eunuch spills sex secrets &#8211; Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting&#39;s eyes in old age [&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-2729","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\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}