{"id":2208,"date":"2003-02-19T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/iraqi-real-estate-market-booming\/"},"modified":"2003-02-19T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T20:20:48","slug":"iraqi-real-estate-market-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/19\/iraqi-real-estate-market-booming\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi real estate market booming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Happy Fun Pundit\" href=\"http:\/\/happyfunpundit.com\/\">Happy Fun Pundit<\/a> reports that Iraqis are preparing for liberation by investing in land:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For those of us that lean strongly towards &#8216;liberator&#8217;, there is some new evidence: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/873579.asp?0bl=-0\">Iraq&#8217;s real estate market is booming<\/a>. There is a surge of investment in commercial construction, home prices are skyrocketing, the Iraqi stock exchange is rising, and real estate speculators are making a killing. According to <i>Newsweek<\/i>, &#8220;there is an air of undeniable optimism in the marketplace&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They know something the protesters don&#8217;t, apparently.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Fun Pundit reports that Iraqis are preparing for liberation by investing in land: For those of us that lean strongly towards &#8216;liberator&#8217;, there is some new evidence: Iraq&#8217;s real estate market is booming. There is a surge of investment in commercial construction, home prices are skyrocketing, the Iraqi stock exchange is rising, and real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/19\/iraqi-real-estate-market-booming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iraqi real estate market booming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-zC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}