{"id":188970,"date":"2010-06-26T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/26\/weak-tea\/"},"modified":"2010-06-26T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T02:24:00","slug":"weak-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/26\/weak-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My assesment of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/26regulate.html\"> financial reform bill that recently was released by the conference committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s better than I had hoped when the Senate first got its hands on it, but it is dangerously weak.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a surprise, it doesn&#8217;t have Blanche Lincoln&#8217;s derivatives restrictions, which is not surprising, that entire proposal was part of the incumbent protection in the US Congress, and with Lincoln having won the primary, it gets deep sixed.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Buetler looks at and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/06\/its-a-draw-bank-friendly-dems-and-progressives-finalize-wall-street-bill.php?ref=fpa\">calls it a draw between liberals and the corruption caucus<\/a>, but that&#8217;s only if you ignore the fact that the liberals had already ceded meaningful reform to the corruption  caucus (and the WH, but I am repeating myself) early in this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My assesment of the financial reform bill that recently was released by the conference committee. It&#8217;s better than I had hoped when the Senate first got its hands on it, but it is dangerously weak. And here&#8217;s a surprise, it doesn&#8217;t have Blanche Lincoln&#8217;s derivatives restrictions, which is not surprising, that entire proposal was part &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,1020,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-legislation","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188970"}],"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=188970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}