{"id":5517,"date":"2019-08-24T23:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T04:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2019-08-24T23:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T04:19:02","slug":"conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5517","title":{"rendered":"Conflict of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally someone (WaPo) realizes that <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trumps-company-could-save-millions-if-interest-rates-fall-as-he-demands\/2019\/08\/24\/5e5df684-c5a9-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump stands to benefit personally from forcing interest rates down<\/a>. Be that forcing rates down through direct demands or through, say, a trade war that negatively impacts the economy. Beyond direct interest savings, real estate companies benefit indirectly as potential customers are willing to pay a little bit more because they&#8217;re saving on interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally someone (WaPo) realizes that Trump stands to benefit personally from forcing interest rates down. Be that forcing rates down through direct demands or through, say, a trade war that negatively impacts the economy. Beyond direct interest savings, real estate companies benefit indirectly as potential customers are willing to pay a little bit more because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5518,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions\/5518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}