{"id":192159,"date":"2009-05-03T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/03\/stress-test-results-delayed\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T02:37:00","slug":"stress-test-results-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/03\/stress-test-results-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stress Test&#8221; Results Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were supposed to be announced tomorrow, but the results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=ah2VR57uTiWg\">will be delayed until Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A delay means bad news.  If it had been good, Geithner and Summers would already be crowing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Also note that Austan Goolsbee is saying that the delay is, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/05\/01\/news\/companies\/stress_test\/\">A disagreement by banks over the results of the tests<\/a>,&#8221; which also implies bad news, because the bankers would <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">never<\/span> object to an overly optimistic projection, which would make them money off their stock options.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it seems to me that the reports themselves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=ah2VR57uTiWg\">will be rather sketchy<\/a>, with important details not being made available to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were supposed to be announced tomorrow, but the results will be delayed until Thursday. A delay means bad news. If it had been good, Geithner and Summers would already be crowing about it. Also note that Austan Goolsbee is saying that the delay is, &#8220;A disagreement by banks over the results of the tests,&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192159"}],"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=192159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}