{"id":4408,"date":"2009-08-04T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2009-08-04T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T14:00:03","slug":"links-for-august-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/links-for-august-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for August 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for August 4th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aoO9FGsvnJOk\">Bank of America Among Worst for U.S. Mortgage Modifications, Treasury Says<\/a> &#8211; Surprised?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124935939963303845.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">Toyota Sees Outlook Improving<\/a> &#8211; Nice to see&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/rss\/story\/*http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/finhome\/topstories\/apf\/*http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/090804\/us_economy.html\">US consumer spending rises in 2nd straight gain (AP)<\/a> &#8211; But, look at revisions&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124931920883302049.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">SEC, BofA Settle Over Merrill Bonuses<\/a> &#8211; Slap on the hand&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aqNM6YBLzUfA\">Japanese Wages Slumped Record 7.1% in June as Companies Cut Summer Bonuses<\/a> &#8211; Stocks go up&#8230;.!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aKKgluIR_pqQ\">Bailout Banks Buying Treasuries Help Keep Rates Low With Growing Deposits<\/a> &#8211; So the banks get money for zero, the Fed is buying 20% of each auction. What am I missing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for August 4th : Bank of America Among Worst for U.S. Mortgage Modifications, Treasury Says &#8211; Surprised? Toyota Sees Outlook Improving &#8211; Nice to see&#8230; US consumer spending rises in 2nd straight gain (AP) &#8211; But, look at revisions&#8230; SEC, BofA Settle Over Merrill Bonuses &#8211; Slap [&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-4408","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\/4408","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=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}