{"id":179670,"date":"2017-12-01T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/01\/how-its-done\/"},"modified":"2017-12-01T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T01:35:00","slug":"how-its-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/01\/how-its-done\/","title":{"rendered":"How It&#8217;s Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Jeremy Corbyn is  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-britain-politics-banking\/youre-right-were-a-threat-british-labour-leader-corbyn-warns-morgan-stanley-idUSKBN1DV44L\">is in the house<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Britain\u2019s opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warned Morgan Stanley that bankers are right to regard him as a threat because he wants to transform what he cast as a rigged economy that profits speculators at the expense of ordinary people.  <\/p>\n<p>Morgan Stanley cautioned investors on Nov. 26 that political uncertainty in Britain was a bigger threat than Brexit given the risk of Corbyn winning power and then dismantling what was once seen as one of the world\u2019s most stable free-market economies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBankers like Morgan Stanley should not run our country but they think they do,\u201d Corbyn, a 68-year-old socialist, said in a video posted on Twitter that showed the towers of the City of London and Canary Wharf financial districts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when they say we\u2019re a threat, they\u2019re right: We\u2019re a threat to a damaging and failed system that is rigged for the few,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Now many investors fear Corbyn, who was once dismissed by his own party as an out-of-touch peace campaigner with no hope of ever winning power, could win the top job if the political turmoil continues in London.<\/p>\n<p>One senior executive at a top U.S. investment bank said that at a meeting in New York recently concerns over Corbyn trumped concerns about Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir top concern was not what\u2019s happening in Germany and Spain, or North Korea and Trump: their main concern was what\u2019s happening in the UK and what Corbyn might mean for the country,\u201d the executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big, scary, socialist Jeremy Corbyn is scaring those poor banksters.<\/p>\n<p>They are afraid that they won&#8217;t be able to keep looting.<\/p>\n<p>My heart bleeds borscht for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Corbyn is is in the house: Britain\u2019s opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warned Morgan Stanley that bankers are right to regard him as a threat because he wants to transform what he cast as a rigged economy that profits speculators at the expense of ordinary people. Morgan Stanley cautioned investors on Nov. 26 that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[392,375,371,504,374],"class_list":["post-179670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-philosophy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}