{"id":9,"date":"2010-08-23T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-08-23T14:16:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:16:23","slug":"wisdom-of-crowds-or-mindless-mobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom of crowds?  Or mindless mobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You decide. &#0160;Egads, even mattresses aren&#39;t safe. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef0133f344dc9a970b-pi\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\" style=\"display: inline; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FinancialDoom1\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834208b9953ef0133f344dc9a970b \" src=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef0133f344dc9a970b-500pi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; \" title=\"FinancialDoom1\" \/><\/a>&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef013486692d59970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bedbugs_NYT\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834208b9953ef013486692d59970c image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef013486692d59970c-800wi\" title=\"Bedbugs_NYT\" \/><\/a> <br \/>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;Sources: &#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/23\/housing-fades-as-a-means-to-build-wealth\/?scp=1&amp;sq=housing%20fades&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NYT article on nest eggs and investment trends.\">Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/22\/business\/22invest.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Get out while you still can!\">In Striking Shift, Small Investors Flee Stock Market<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/21\/nyregion\/21bedbugs.html?scp=1&amp;sq=bedbug%20stigma&amp;st=Search\">What Spreads Faster Than Bedbugs? Stigma.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You decide. &#0160;Egads, even mattresses aren&#39;t safe. &#0160; &#0160;&#0160; &#0160;&#0160; &#0160; &#0160;Sources: &#0160;Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, In Striking Shift, Small Investors Flee Stock Market, What Spreads Faster Than Bedbugs? Stigma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-finance","tag-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}