{"id":190526,"date":"2009-11-17T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/17\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-18\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:32:00","slug":"signs-of-the-apocalypse-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/17\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd <span>Bankfein<\/span> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aeV9jwqKKrEw&amp;os=2\">apologized for Goldman Sachs role in the meltdown<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"><p>\u201cWe participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret,\u201d <span>Blankfein<\/span>, 55, said at a conference in New York hosted by the Directorship magazine. \u201cWe apologize.\u201d     <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice, of course, that the wrong doing is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">completely unspecified<\/span>, but still, <span>given<\/span> the fact that <span>arrogance<\/span> is a part of the DNA of that great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,<sup>*<\/sup> Goldman Sachs, there are really only two possibilities here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone has pictures of <span>Bankfein<\/span> sodomizing an underage goat.<\/li>\n<li>They are really scared that the villagers with pitch forks are on the way to Congress to change things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If they are worried about the latter, they have a far more optimistic view of the American public, and American politics, than I do.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Alas, I cannot claim credit for this <span>bon<\/span> mot, it was coined by the great Matt <span>Taibbi<\/span>, in his article on the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;font-size:78%;\" >massive criminal conspiracy<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> investment firm, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/28816321\/the_great_american_bubble_machine\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:78%;\" >The Great American Bubble Machine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Bankfein has apologized for Goldman Sachs role in the meltdown: \u201cWe participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret,\u201d Blankfein, 55, said at a conference in New York hosted by the Directorship magazine. \u201cWe apologize.\u201d Notice, of course, that the wrong doing is completely unspecified, but still, &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190526"}],"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=190526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}