{"id":8696,"date":"2010-03-17T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=8696"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:00:11","slug":"links-for-march-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/links-for-march-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 17th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/jason-taylor-reading-room-calling-all-readers\/\">Jason Taylor Reading Room &ndash; Calling All Readers&hellip; : The Disciplined Investor<\/a> &#8211; Please check this out<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Senators-back-bill-to-apf-2627813146.html?x=0\">Senators back bill to pressure China on currency<\/a> &#8211; A group of 14 U.S. senators unveiled legislation Tuesday that seeks to increase pressure on China to let its currency to rise in value against the dollar, saying Chinese &quot;currency manipulation&quot; is hurting the U.S. economy.&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nThe bill calls for stiff trade sanctions if China does not act.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/17\/business\/global\/17drachma.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Greece Eager for Details on European Aid &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; BRUSSELS &mdash; Greece received a welcome vote of confidence on Tuesday from the rating agency Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s for its deficit-reduction efforts, but the country was still pressing for details on a new loan rescue package from fellow euro-zone members, which remain divided over how it might work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a3TegUAQPiEE&amp;pos=7\">China in &lsquo;Greatest Bubble in History,&rsquo; ex-LTCM&rsquo;s Rickards Says &#8211; Bloomberg.com<\/a> &#8211; China is in the midst of &ldquo;the greatest bubble in history,&rdquo; said James Rickards, former general counsel of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management LP.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/CIT-Group-posts-4Q-loss-of-1-apf-1070829126.html?x=0\">CIT Group posts 4Q loss of $1 billion &#8211; Yahoo! Finance<\/a> &#8211; CIT Group on Tuesday said it lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter, excluding a huge one-time reorganization benefit.&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nThe company also recorded a full-year loss of $4 million as losses from bad loans more than offset financial benefits from its bankruptcy reorganization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 17th : Jason Taylor Reading Room &ndash; Calling All Readers&hellip; : The Disciplined Investor &#8211; Please check this out Senators back bill to pressure China on currency &#8211; A group of 14 U.S. senators unveiled legislation Tuesday that seeks to increase pressure on China to [&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-8696","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\/8696","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=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}