{"id":1794,"date":"2007-08-13T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2007-08-13T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T18:16:31","slug":"congressional-leadership-on-lending-policies-what-is-crisis-itis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1794\/congressional-leadership-on-lending-policies-what-is-crisis-itis\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional &#8220;leadership&#8221; on lending policies: What is &#8220;crisis-itis?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorandstupid.com\/2007_08_12_chronArchive.asp#1674243759982426241\" target=\"_blank\">The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid<\/a>, which should be in your feed-reader &#8212; especially right now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is &#8220;crisis-itis?&#8221; It is my own diagnosis. It is a form of dementia where the inflicted believes his or her own self worth rises as the situation he monitors worsens. In all cases, the inflicted greatly exaggerates his or her control over events, as well as the size, duration, and impact of those events. In extreme cases, the inflicted seeks to worsen the crisis to inflate his or her self esteem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid, which should be in your feed-reader &#8212; especially right now: What is &#8220;crisis-itis?&#8221; It is my own diagnosis. It is a form of dementia where the inflicted believes his or her own self worth rises as the situation he monitors worsens. In all cases, the inflicted greatly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-lending","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17632,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17632\/overnight-news-a-peaceful-devolution-of-government-now-thats-a-christmas-miracle\/","url_meta":{"origin":1794,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: A peaceful devolution of government? 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