{"id":1526,"date":"2011-10-23T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2011-10-23T22:46:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T02:46:41","slug":"taxi-medallions-a-better-investment-than-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/taxi-medallions-a-better-investment-than-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Medallions: A Better Investment than Gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seattlelimousineservice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/taxi-cab-light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/20\/2-taxi-medallions-sell-for-1-million-each\/\"><em>NY Times<\/em><\/a>, this week two New York taxi cab medallions were sold for one million dollars each. Taxi cab medallions are plates that allow drivers to operate a cab inside the city limits, so in a city like New York the medallions can be worth a lot of money as shown. Some of the interesting takeaways from the article are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The return value on the medallions from 30 years ago outperformed the stock market and gold<\/li>\n<li>The amount of taxi medallions is occasionally increased, but rarely and by auction<\/li>\n<li>When the medallions were first issued, they sold for what would have been $157.50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For that and more you can go to their <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/20\/2-taxi-medallions-sell-for-1-million-each\/\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/20\/2-taxi-medallions-sell-for-1-million-each\/\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NY Times, this week two New York taxi cab medallions were sold for one million dollars each. Taxi cab medallions are plates that allow drivers to operate a cab inside the city limits, so in a city like New York the medallions can be worth a lot of money as shown. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}