{"id":32,"date":"2008-11-28T10:34:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-11-28T10:34:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T15:34:59","slug":"should-bad-financial-contracts-be-replaced-with-blessed-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2008\/11\/28\/should-bad-financial-contracts-be-replaced-with-blessed-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Should &#8216;Bad&#8217; Financial Contracts Be Replaced with &#8216;Blessed&#8217; Ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Also, consider common stocks. No rational regulator concerned with substantive transparency would approve of common stock, if it were a novel investment vehicle. It guarantees no cashflows whatever, its &#8220;control rights&#8221; are so weak for most purchasers that representations thereof should be viewed as fraudulent. Empirically common stock behavior is very weakly coupled to the performance and health of the firms that stocks fund. The only instrument in wide use more substantatively opaque than common stock is fiat money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/107517-should-bad-financial-contracts-be-replaced-with-blessed-ones\">Seeking Alpha<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, consider common stocks. No rational regulator concerned with substantive transparency would approve of common stock, if it were a novel investment vehicle. It guarantees no cashflows whatever, its &#8220;control rights&#8221; are so weak for most purchasers that representations thereof should be viewed as fraudulent. Empirically common stock behavior is very weakly coupled to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}