{"id":879,"date":"2008-07-11T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=879"},"modified":"2008-07-11T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:07:26","slug":"no-one-should-speculate-but-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"No One Should Speculate But Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Roberts has an <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.typepad.com\/hayek\/2008\/07\/oil-speculation.html\">interesting letter<\/a> from the airlines calling on Congress to ban oil speculation.  Never mind that everyone who knows what they&#8217;re talking about &#8212; including liberal Paul Krugman &#8212; agrees that speculation isn&#8217;t driving up the price of oil.  This is another prime example of how Big Business <i>hates<\/i> the free market; hates it.  What the airlines want is for them to be able to speculate (through strategic buying) but not let anyone else do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Roberts has an interesting letter from the airlines calling on Congress to ban oil speculation. Never mind that everyone who knows what they&#8217;re talking about &#8212; including liberal Paul Krugman &#8212; agrees that speculation isn&#8217;t driving up the price of oil. This is another prime example of how Big Business hates the free market; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No One Should Speculate But Us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-eb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}