{"id":16482,"date":"2014-07-28T10:44:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16482"},"modified":"2014-07-28T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:44:32","slug":"how-not-to-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16482\/how-not-to-message\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking this moment to give this brief lesson<\/a> on how not to message:<\/p>\n

Neil Siegel, a former special counsel to Joe Biden and supporter of ObamaCare\/Affordable Care Act, was on WUNC\u2019s The State of Things on Wednesday discussing recent appellate litigation involving the subsidies authorized by the Act. The DC Circuit ruled Monday that subsidies are illegal in states that did not set up their own insurance exchanges. North Carolina is one of those states. The Fourth Circuit, in which North Carolina is located, found otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking this moment to give this brief lesson on how not to message: Neil Siegel, a former special counsel to Joe Biden and supporter of ObamaCare\/Affordable Care Act, was on WUNC\u2019s The State of Things on Wednesday discussing recent appellate litigation involving the subsidies authorized by the Act. The DC Circuit ruled Monday that subsidies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15293,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15293\/hey-ron-phipps-i-say-the-national-association-of-realtors-is-a-rent-seeking-rotarian-socialist-conspiracy-against-the-american-consumer-can-you-offer-even-one-argument-to-refute-that-claim\/","url_meta":{"origin":16482,"position":0},"title":"Hey, Ron Phipps: I say the National Association of Realtors is a rent-seeking Rotarian Socialist conspiracy against the American consumer. 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Few people will dispute that more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Investment"","block_context":{"text":"Investment","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/investment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":579,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/579\/should-you-trust-the-numbers-you-read-dig-deeper\/","url_meta":{"origin":16482,"position":4},"title":"Should you trust the numbers you read? Dig deeper . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republic is all atwitter today because \"Prices of new homes slip by largest amount in nearly 36 years\". What's the real news: Nationwide (a non-existent real estate market), year-over-year median prices for new homes were down 9.7%. Not great, not awful, and not really news at all. 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