{"id":4251,"date":"2026-04-22T21:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:27:58","slug":"big-bidness-babble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"Big Bidness Babble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">11 x 15 inch <a href=\"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thisistheeconomy\/thisistheeconomy150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medium-res <strong>color .jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 592kb<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thisistheeconomy\/thisistheeconomy150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thisistheeconomy\/thisistheeconomy650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Starring in order of appearance:<\/strong> Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of <em>&#8220;Some Crap You Bought To Read On The Plane&#8221;<\/em>; some wild-ass up-all-night, Monster Energy-guzzling, stock-market playing Wall Street geek, author of <em>&#8220;Some Crap You Bought To Read On The Plane&#8221;<\/em>; and some shallow, glitzed-up ex-Chamber Of Commerce honcho who&#8217;s now the executive director of some big-ass retailers&#8217; association, author of <em>&#8220;Some Crap You Bought To Read On The Plane&#8221;<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Inspired by a <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/maplecocaine.bsky.social\/post\/3mjhly2wwu22f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lively, witty exchange<\/a> between some pals<a href=\"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thisistheeconomy\/maplecocainebsky_economydoinggreat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> on Bluesky<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, riffing on business media pundit shartage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(At this point, has there ever been a panelist or Guest Contributing Analyst on The Network Formerly Known As MSNBC who<em> hasn&#8217;t<\/em> been pushing a book on the air lately?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">11 x 15 inch medium-res <a href=\"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thisistheeconomy\/thisistheeconomy150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 592kb<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of &#8220;Some Crap You Bought To Read On The Plane&#8221;; some wild-ass up-all-night, Monster Energy-guzzling, stock-market playing Wall Street geek, author of &#8220;Some Crap You Bought To Read On The Plane&#8221;; and some shallow, glitzed-up ex-Chamber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1521,19,7,10],"tags":[1546,156,1545],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2028-election","category-economy","category-elections","category-media","tag-mornimg-joe","tag-msnbc","tag-msnow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}