{"id":8127,"date":"2011-04-04T20:49:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T03:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2011-04-04T20:49:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T03:49:39","slug":"why-is-the-fed-bailing-out-qaddafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/04\/why-is-the-fed-bailing-out-qaddafi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is the Fed Bailing Out Qaddafi?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why Is the Fed Bailing Out Qaddafi?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Barack Obama recently issued\u00a0an executive order<\/a> imposing a wave of sanctions against Libya, not only freezing Libyan assets, but barring Americans from having business dealings with Libyan banks.<\/p>\n

So raise your hand if you knew that the United States has been extending billions of dollars in aid to Qaddafi and to the Central Bank of Libya, through a Libyan-owned subsidiary bank operating out of Bahrain. And raise your hand if you knew that, just a week or so after Obama\u2019s executive order, the U.S. Treasury Department quietly issuedan order<\/a> exempting this and other Libyan-owned banks to continue operating without sanction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Is the Fed Bailing Out Qaddafi?: Barack Obama recently issued\u00a0an executive order imposing a wave of sanctions against Libya, not only freezing Libyan assets, but barring Americans from having business dealings with Libyan banks. So raise your hand if you knew that the United States has been extending billions of dollars in aid to … Continue reading Why Is the Fed Bailing Out Qaddafi?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-275","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8128,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}