{"id":4825,"date":"2009-05-03T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2009-05-03T10:29:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T15:29:13","slug":"the_new_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/the_new_economy.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Son, perhaps you&#8217;ve never thought about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05032009\/news\/regionalnews\/arm_twisters_grab__from_citys_coffers_167434.htm\">a lucrative career as a city marshal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> A lucky group of city marshals earned a record $43 million last year by swooping in to collect debts for individuals, the city and big corporations like AT&#038;T and Con Edison, routinely towing cars, evicting tenants and collecting court judgments.<\/p>\n<p>There were 46 marshals in 2008, and cashing in on financial catastrophe has made 16 of them millionaires.<\/p>\n<p>They pocket 5 percent of every debt they collect, and pay only minor fees for the privilege. Their 2008 take was $1 million more than the year before, and almost $5 million more than in 2006.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son, perhaps you&#8217;ve never thought about a lucrative career as a city marshal: A lucky group of city marshals earned a record $43 million last year by swooping in to collect debts for individuals, the city and big corporations like AT&#038;T and Con Edison, routinely towing cars, evicting tenants and collecting court judgments. There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}