{"id":192245,"date":"2009-04-24T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/24\/we-need-to-be-more-european\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T22:40:00","slug":"we-need-to-be-more-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/24\/we-need-to-be-more-european\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need to Be More European"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/40db7474-3054-11de-88e3-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss\">EU is proposing a cap on executive compensation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Bankers\u2019 bonuses and golden parachutes would be capped in all European Union countries under a draft policy circulating in Brussels that amounts to one of the broadest responses yet to concerns about executive pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No BS about, &#8220;If you participate in this program, you are limited,&#8221; it applies to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">everyone<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>They are saying, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Just so much and no more never more than a spot or something may happen, you never know what<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even if the bankers were doing a good job, that level of remuneration is immoral, whether its a lawyer or a football player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the EU is proposing a cap on executive compensation: Bankers\u2019 bonuses and golden parachutes would be capped in all European Union countries under a draft policy circulating in Brussels that amounts to one of the broadest responses yet to concerns about executive pay. No BS about, &#8220;If you participate in this program, you are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192245"}],"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=192245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}