{"id":517,"date":"2011-08-30T19:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2011-08-30T19:02:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T23:02:24","slug":"walter-williams-on-the-2012-election-and-sound-money-zerohedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/30\/walter-williams-on-the-2012-election-and-sound-money-zerohedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Williams On The 2012 Election And Sound Money | ZeroHedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#008080;\">It\u2019s hard for a president to win reelection with a high unemployment rate. It looks like there is no way in the world, between now and the election, that unemployment will drop substantially. That does not bode well for Obama\u2019s reelection.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/walter-williams-2012-election-and-sound-money?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29\">Walter Williams On The 2012 Election And Sound Money | ZeroHedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard for a president to win reelection with a high unemployment rate. It looks like there is no way in the world, between now and the election, that unemployment will drop substantially. That does not bode well for Obama\u2019s reelection. via Walter Williams On The 2012 Election And Sound Money | ZeroHedge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-canada-countries-regions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Walter Williams On The 2012 Election And Sound Money | ZeroHedge - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walter Williams On The 2012 Election And Sound Money | ZeroHedge - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s hard for a president to win reelection with a high unemployment rate. 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