{"id":191463,"date":"2009-08-14T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/14\/goldman-says-curbing-speculators-may-disrupt-markets\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:09:00","slug":"goldman-says-curbing-speculators-may-disrupt-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/14\/goldman-says-curbing-speculators-may-disrupt-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Says Curbing Speculators May Disrupt Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, isn&#8217;t that special, Goldman Sachs thinks that we as a society <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=abDChEECtFsI\">owe them the right to rape us<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the bank that makes the most money from commodities, fixed-income and currency trading, said attempts to curb speculation may be \u201cdisruptive\u201d to energy markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">\u201cThe role that is played by non-traditional participants such as index investors and other financial participants often has been mischaracterized,\u201d Don Casturo, a Goldman Sachs managing director, said today at a Commodity Futures Trading Commission hearing in Washington. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow, I think that your being hung from a lamp post when the revolution comes would be more disruptive.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it appears that Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner and Lawrence &#8220;Never Right in the Real World&#8221; Summers largely agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, isn&#8217;t that special, Goldman Sachs thinks that we as a society owe them the right to rape us: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the bank that makes the most money from commodities, fixed-income and currency trading, said attempts to curb speculation may be \u201cdisruptive\u201d to energy markets. \u201cThe role that is played by non-traditional participants &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191463"}],"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=191463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}