{"id":187984,"date":"2011-01-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/06\/well-if-i-had-been-ignored-for-2-years-id-quit-too\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:00:00","slug":"well-if-i-had-been-ignored-for-2-years-id-quit-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/06\/well-if-i-had-been-ignored-for-2-years-id-quit-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, If I Had Been Ignored for 2 Years, I&#8217;d Quit Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Volcker, arguably the person in the administration most strongly for enhanced regulation of financial institution, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE70458G20110106\">leaving the administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker plans to leave his role as head of a panel of experts advising President Barack Obama on the economy, sources familiar with the decision said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of Volcker, 83, from the President&#8217;s Economic Recovery Advisory Board is among a series of changes Obama is planning to announce soon.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to leave the board was Volcker&#8217;s.\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seeing as how he was generally ignored, and his initiatives, like the Volcker rule were, at best, used as political talking points, it&#8217;s no wonder.<\/p>\n<p>If I weren&#8217;t someone with my tongue so far up the banks&#8217; rectums that I tasted tonsils (see Summers, Lawrence and Geithner, Timothy), and I were an economic adviser to the Obama administration, I wouldn&#8217;t have made it past 2 months, much less 2 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Volcker, arguably the person in the administration most strongly for enhanced regulation of financial institution, is leaving the administration: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker plans to leave his role as head of a panel of experts advising President Barack Obama on the economy, sources familiar with the decision said on Wednesday. The departure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,975,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-employment","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187984"}],"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=187984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}