{"id":399,"date":"2009-02-10T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T03:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=399"},"modified":"2009-02-10T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T03:33:54","slug":"a-different-kind-of-liquidity-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/02\/10\/a-different-kind-of-liquidity-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"a different kind of liquidity trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Israeli policy, the people of Gaza have <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2009\/02\/10\/pm_gaza_cash_shortage\/\">run out of money<\/a>, literally.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cash has been in short supply here since 2007. That&#8217;s when the Islamist group Hamas forcibly took control of Gaza. Israel then imposed a strict blockade that limits trucks taking cash from bank headquarters in the West Bank to branches in Gaza. Israel, the U.S. and the E.U. consider Hamas a terrorist organization and don&#8217;t want money getting into its hands. Over the last few months, the shekel embargo has tightened. And Gaza-based economist Khaled Abdel Shafi says banks are at rock bottom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Israeli policy, the people of Gaza have run out of money, literally. Cash has been in short supply here since 2007. That&#8217;s when the Islamist group Hamas forcibly took control of Gaza. Israel then imposed a strict blockade that limits trucks taking cash from bank headquarters in the West Bank to branches in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}