{"id":1219,"date":"2013-02-14T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T11:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2013-02-14T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T11:10:21","slug":"the-great-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/02\/the-great-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest ever fraud has been perpetrated by the US treasury, greater than any fraud ever perpetrated by any fraudster or bank. They have it seems, been manipulating the rate of inflation to reduce their costs, including the cost of their multi zillion dollar national debt.<br \/>\nThis will infuriate the Chinese of course, who own a great chunk of that devalued debt.<br \/>\nMight I suggest to the Chinese that they show how unnacceptable this is by sinking one of those VERY expensive US aircraft carriers. Go on. You know you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest ever fraud has been perpetrated by the US treasury, greater than any fraud ever perpetrated by any fraudster or bank. They have it seems, been manipulating the rate of inflation to reduce their costs, including the cost of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/02\/the-great-fraud\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-jF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1703,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/12\/oh-contraire\/","url_meta":{"origin":1219,"position":0},"title":"Oh contraire","author":"taxicle","date":"December 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"While everyone is praising Mandela the terrorist, why don't any of the victims of the bombings perpetrated by the ANC appear on tv to condemn all the razzmatazz and hero worship?","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2353,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2016\/03\/if-all-the-worlds-debt-were-paid\/","url_meta":{"origin":1219,"position":1},"title":"If all the World&#8217;s Debt Were Paid","author":"taxicle","date":"March 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Would the World be a better place? 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