{"id":1332,"date":"2008-03-14T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T10:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2008-03-14T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T10:48:41","slug":"is_it_really_so_simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/is_it_really_so_simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Really So Simple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scalzi.com\/whatever\/?p=490\">Scalzi<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/markets\/article3552615.ece\">abysmal exchange rates<\/a> of the moment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;in the long run it would be nice to have my home currency seen as stable and having value. The cynical part of me wonders how much the global perception of the dollar will change simply by having a new occupant in the White House on January 20, 2009. I guess we\u2019ll find out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s an interesting question, isn&#8217;t it? I&#8217;ll admit that I know very little about economics or all the arcane factors that influence how well or poorly we&#8217;re doing as a country &#8212; I find even simple 401k investments utterly baffling and intimidating &#8212; so I have no opinion on this idea myself. But I do wonder just how much psychology and prestige plays into something like the value of a nation&#8217;s currency. Anyone have any thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>I will say that, if there&#8217;s anything to this, a post-election rebound for the dollar would be excellent news for me, as The Girlfriend and I have been talking about finally taking that dream trip to Scotland next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scalzi on the abysmal exchange rates of the moment: &#8230;in the long run it would be nice to have my home currency seen as stable and having value. The cynical part of me wonders how much the global perception of the dollar will change simply by having a new occupant in the White House on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}