{"id":190386,"date":"2009-12-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/04\/another-emirate-gets-boned\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:59:00","slug":"another-emirate-gets-boned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/04\/another-emirate-gets-boned\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Emirate Gets Boned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 410px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img25.imageshack.us\/img25\/4224\/12593666114458678254.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img25.imageshack.us\/img25\/4224\/12593666114458678254.gif\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">It&#8217;s Nothing Personal, It&#8217;s Just Business<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, yet another Gulf emirate has <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704107104574573543348525488.html\">gotten done like a drunk date in prom night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it&#8217;s Abu Dhabi, who agreed to buy shares of Citi at $31.83, under the terms of a 2 year ole deal, even though the shares are currently trading at $4.10.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nothing personal, and Citi and its ilk have been doing this to the US public, and the US taxpayer for decades now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Nothing Personal, It&#8217;s Just Business So, yet another Gulf emirate has gotten done like a drunk date in prom night. In this case, it&#8217;s Abu Dhabi, who agreed to buy shares of Citi at $31.83, under the terms of a 2 year ole deal, even though the shares are currently trading at $4.10. It&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,986],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190386"}],"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=190386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}