{"id":8070,"date":"2010-02-22T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2010-02-22T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:00:03","slug":"links-for-february-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/22\/links-for-february-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for February 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for February 22nd :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/35488348\/ns\/business-personal_finance\/\">New credit card law kicks in &mdash; with many of the old problems<\/a> &#8211; Sweeping regulations taking effect today were supposed to prevent banks from exploiting borrowers. But an array of fees and loopholes remain<\/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\/100221\/us_schlumberger_smith_international.html\">Schlumberger to buy Smith Int&#8217;l for $11 billion<\/a> &#8211; More consolidation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61I4Q920100219\">Rate hike furor shows delicate task ahead for Fed<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-20\/treasuries-fall-as-fed-lifts-discount-rate-debates-asset-sales.html\">Treasuries Fall as Fed Lifts Discount Rate, Debates Asset Sales<\/a> &#8211; <\/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\/100219\/us_economy.html\">Low inflation gives Fed room to keep rates down (AP)<\/a> &#8211; Interesting&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for February 22nd : New credit card law kicks in &mdash; with many of the old problems &#8211; Sweeping regulations taking effect today were supposed to prevent banks from exploiting borrowers. But an array of fees and loopholes remain Schlumberger to buy Smith Int&#8217;l for $11 billion [&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-8070","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\/8070","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=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}