{"id":5336,"date":"2009-08-31T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2009-08-31T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:46:07","slug":"leading_economic_indicators_drug_dealer_customer_service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/leading_economic_indicators_drug_dealer_customer_service.html","title":{"rendered":"Leading Economic Indicators: Drug Dealer Customer Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2009\/08\/hit_by_recession_cocaine_deale.html\">When small talk means value-added<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Damien, 27, who quit doing coke almost two years ago, has been contacted by three different cocaine dealers, all wanting his business, since June. &#8220;None of my friends mess with that anymore,&#8221; Damien says, &#8220;It&#8217;s like they grew up overnight when the banks died.&#8221; Eddie was one of the dealers who has recently contacted Damien. When demand first dropped, Eddie took a vacation. But when the situation failed to improve, he decided to call every name in his phone book until he&#8217;d arranged a deal. &#8220;It worked,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;ll keep doing it until it stops working. But I don&#8217;t like small talk. I don&#8217;t like having to ask them how their day was.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When small talk means value-added: Damien, 27, who quit doing coke almost two years ago, has been contacted by three different cocaine dealers, all wanting his business, since June. &#8220;None of my friends mess with that anymore,&#8221; Damien says, &#8220;It&#8217;s like they grew up overnight when the banks died.&#8221; Eddie was one of the dealers [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336","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=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}