{"id":190099,"date":"2010-01-07T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/07\/more-ass-covering-by-the-fed-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T01:53:00","slug":"more-ass-covering-by-the-fed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/07\/more-ass-covering-by-the-fed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Ass Covering by the Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now getting whispers that the Federal Reserve is planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/34752557\">get tough with the banks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>If the Fed chairman\u2019s speech didn\u2019t worry investors, his timing is interesting. Ben Bernanake now flies to Switzerland for a meeting with the world\u2019s other central bankers.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s invitation from the Bank of International Settlements specifically questions whether banks\u2014using cheap money\u2014are returning to the aggressive behavior that prevailed during the pre-crisis period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What we will see is a lot of fake toughness, because Bernanke is trying to do everything that he can to kill the Fed audit bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now getting whispers that the Federal Reserve is planning to get tough with the banks: If the Fed chairman\u2019s speech didn\u2019t worry investors, his timing is interesting. Ben Bernanake now flies to Switzerland for a meeting with the world\u2019s other central bankers. Saturday\u2019s invitation from the Bank of International Settlements specifically questions whether &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1051,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-hypocrisy","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190099"}],"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=190099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}