{"id":179899,"date":"2017-09-21T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/21\/ka-ching-3\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T03:46:00","slug":"ka-ching-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/21\/ka-ching-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ka-Ching!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Less than a year, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-18\/obama-goes-from-white-house-to-wall-street-in-less-than-one-year\">Obama is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches to the banksters<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hillary Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2017-09-10\/clinton-done-with-being-a-candidate-as-she-recalls-2016-errors\">says<\/a> she made a mistake when she gave speeches on Wall Street after leaving government. Taking money from banks, she writes in her new memoir, created the impression she was in their pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Her old boss doesn\u2019t seem to share her concern. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, just before her book \u201cWhat Happened\u201d was published, Barack Obama spoke in New York to clients of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NTRS:US\">Northern Trust Corp.<\/a> for about $400,000, a person familiar with his appearance said. Last week, he reminisced about the White House for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/CG:US\">Carlyle Group LP<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s biggest private equity firms, according to two people who were there. Next week, he\u2019ll give a keynote speech at investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald LP\u2019s health-care conference.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for hope an change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a year, and Obama is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches to the banksters: Hillary Clinton says she made a mistake when she gave speeches on Wall Street after leaving government. Taking money from banks, she writes in her new memoir, created the impression she was in their pocket. Her old &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":[491,368,403],"class_list":["post-179899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barack-obama","tag-corruption","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179899"}],"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=179899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}