{"id":4362,"date":"2009-08-02T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2009-08-02T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T18:00:34","slug":"links-for-august-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/02\/links-for-august-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for August 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for August 2nd :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/businessNews\/~3\/0RuX3M4DAbg\/idUSN0248059020090802\">Obama officials eye more jobless aid, weigh taxes<\/a> &#8211; Rob from the rich to give to the poor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/enf\/rss.asp?guid={610410B2-E379-4EEC-8376-E8475453FAE3}&amp;siteid=rss&amp;rss=1\">Jobless benefits to dry up for 1.5 million: NYT<\/a> &#8211; This is one reason why we are seeing the continuing claims fall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124922988694299529.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">&#8216;Clunkers&#8217; Honored Till Tuesday<\/a> &#8211; May pull plug if senate does not approve quickly&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idUSTRE56U0GR20090731?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=businessNews\">House Approves Extension for &quot;Cash for Clunkers&quot;<\/a> &#8211; The House of Representatives approved a $2 billion extension to the &quot;Cash for Clunker&quot; bill after the initial funding was already exhausted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idUSTRE56U5AL20090731?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=businessNews\">One Step Closer to Limiting Executive Pay<\/a> &#8211; The House backed the bill to curb executive pay and will now head to the senate for further approval.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a7r3NctyRuJg\">Calpers Sues S&amp;P, Fitch and Moody&#8217;s For Lehman Bond Ratings<\/a> &#8211; S&amp;P seeks to dismiss Calpers, the largest U.S. public pension fund, sued July 9 over $1 Billion in losses it blamed on &quot;wildly inaccurate&quot; risk assessments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for August 2nd : Obama officials eye more jobless aid, weigh taxes &#8211; Rob from the rich to give to the poor Jobless benefits to dry up for 1.5 million: NYT &#8211; This is one reason why we are seeing the continuing claims fall &#8216;Clunkers&#8217; Honored Till [&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":[262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/4362","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=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}