{"id":191755,"date":"2009-06-28T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/28\/if-only-the-czar-knew\/"},"modified":"2009-06-28T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T01:37:00","slug":"if-only-the-czar-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/28\/if-only-the-czar-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"If Only the Czar Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=atBbIcvSgrFs#\">Larry Summers and Tim Geithner have successfully neutralized Paul Volcker&#8217;s attempts to create meaningful reform in the financial industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The subtext that the article misses is that this is that this is not Summers&#8217; or Geithner&#8217;s doing, it is Barack Obama&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Paul Volker has been marginalized is obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together, and President Obama is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> a stupid man.<\/p>\n<p>The increases in regulation and the reform have been held to a minimum because that is what Obama wants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article on how Larry Summers and Tim Geithner have successfully neutralized Paul Volcker&#8217;s attempts to create meaningful reform in the financial industry. The subtext that the article misses is that this is that this is not Summers&#8217; or Geithner&#8217;s doing, it is Barack Obama&#8217;s doing. The fact that Paul Volker has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1004,985,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-finance","category-regulation","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191755"}],"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=191755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}