{"id":272,"date":"2008-02-11T02:18:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2008-02-11T02:19:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T23:19:51","slug":"us-elections-as-a-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"US elections as a stock market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it wasn&#8217;t quite over like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=258\">I thought a month ago<\/a>. Clinton came back &#8211; for a moment. I still believe Obama wins dem nomination and the eventual race against McCain. But that&#8217;s just my belief. What the last month shows more than anything else is the fact that US elections have a close resemblance to stock markets. Booms,  busts, unpredictability, everything. Fundamentals do matter, but not much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it wasn&#8217;t quite over like I thought a month ago. Clinton came back &#8211; for a moment. I still believe Obama wins dem nomination and the eventual race against McCain. But that&#8217;s just my belief. What the last month shows more than anything else is the fact that US elections have a close resemblance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US elections as a stock market&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}