{"id":190065,"date":"2010-01-11T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/11\/whod-have-thunk-it\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:36:00","slug":"whod-have-thunk-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/11\/whod-have-thunk-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;d Have Thunk It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 302px; float: right; text-align: center;\">\n<div><object class codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" height=\"219\" width=\"292\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com\/up\/fop\/embedflv\/swf\/fop_wrapper.swf?id=17521542&amp;autoStart=0&amp;prepanelEnable=1&amp;infopanelEnable=1&amp;carouselEnable=0\"><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com\/up\/fop\/embedflv\/swf\/fop_wrapper.swf?id=17521542&amp;autoStart=0&amp;prepanelEnable=1&amp;infopanelEnable=1&amp;carouselEnable=0\" height=\"219\" width=\"292\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That the patron saint of dotcom excesses, Henry Blodget is calling for<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/tech-ticker\/latest-aig-revelations-one-more-reason-why-geithner%27s-got-to-go-400369.html\">Latest AIG Revelations: One More Reason Why Geithner&#8217;s Got to Go<\/a><\/span><br \/>Posted Jan 08, 2010 11:20am EST by Henry Blodget in Investing, Newsmakers, Recession, Banking<\/p>\n<p>The latest revelations about the New York Fed&#8217;s actions in the AIG bailout make one thing clear: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner must go.<\/p>\n<p>Geithner must go not just because of the emails showing that his New York Fed ordered AIG to keep details of the bailout secret, but because of many other decisions and policies he has championed in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a time for Obama to fish or cut bait.<\/p>\n<p>He is either a captive of the FIRE (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">F<\/span>inance <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I<\/span>nsurance <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">R<\/span>eal <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">E<\/span>state) sector, or he represents the American people, and Geithner, and to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">an even larger extant<\/span> Lawrence Summers are an artifact of the former.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/latest-aig-revelations-one-more-reason-why-geithners-got-to-go\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29\">The Big Picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the patron saint of dotcom excesses, Henry Blodget is calling for Latest AIG Revelations: One More Reason Why Geithner&#8217;s Got to GoPosted Jan 08, 2010 11:20am EST by Henry Blodget in Investing, Newsmakers, Recession, Banking The latest revelations about the New York Fed&#8217;s actions in the AIG bailout make one thing clear: Treasury Secretary &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,970,973,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-corruption","category-economy","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190065"}],"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=190065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}