{"id":15280,"date":"2016-11-18T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15280"},"modified":"2016-11-18T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:13:14","slug":"obit-watch-november-18-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15280","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: November 18, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/17\/business\/howard-ruff-quirky-conservative-economist-and-author-dies-at-85.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=obituaries&#038;region=stream&#038;module=stream_unit&#038;version=latest&#038;contentPlacement=3&#038;pgtype=sectionfront&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Ruff<\/a>, author and &#8220;conservative&#8221; economist.<\/p>\n<p>I had a copy of <strong>How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years<\/strong> when I was a boy. The young me thought Ruff made a lot of sense, but I really wasn&#8217;t in a position as a lad to take any action on his recommendations. In retrospect, it doesn&#8217;t seem like much of what he predicted ever came true, so maybe that was for the better.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to see an objective analysis of how his recommendations performed against the market, but I don&#8217;t have the time or data to do that. Maybe someone else will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Ruff, author and &#8220;conservative&#8221; economist. I had a copy of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years when I was a boy. The young me thought Ruff made a lot of sense, but I really wasn&#8217;t in a position as a lad to take any action on his recommendations. In retrospect, it doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15281,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280\/revisions\/15281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}