{"id":192320,"date":"2009-04-14T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/14\/do-i-look-like-a-fing-idiot\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:39:00","slug":"do-i-look-like-a-fing-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/14\/do-i-look-like-a-fing-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Look Like a F&#038;^%ing Idiot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goldman Sach&#8217;s CFO, David Viniar, says that he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aVJT1NtIY3DQ&amp;refer=home\">mystified at why people care about the dealings between AIG and Goldman<\/a>, &#8220;They\u2019re one of thousands and thousands and thousands of counterparties and the results of any trading with AIG are completely immaterial to what we do&#8230;I am mystified by this fascination with AIG.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People are interested because you bought phony insurance contracts (CDS&#8217;s) from them, and when they imploded, you got the taxpayer to pay out at 100\u00a2 on the dollar, creating <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">yet another<\/span> subsidy for you corrupt bastards.<\/p>\n<p>Even people who <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">don&#8217;t<\/span> understand the whole picture, they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">know<\/span> that this is corrupt, and that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">they<\/span> are being stuck with the check for this.<\/p>\n<p>Your claim that profits on AIG deals, &#8220;rounded to zero&#8221;, in 2008 is bullsh%$.  In a fair system, your firm should have lost millions, if not <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">billions<\/span>, were it not for yet another subsidy of you corrupt losers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldman Sach&#8217;s CFO, David Viniar, says that he is mystified at why people care about the dealings between AIG and Goldman, &#8220;They\u2019re one of thousands and thousands and thousands of counterparties and the results of any trading with AIG are completely immaterial to what we do&#8230;I am mystified by this fascination with AIG.&#8221; People 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":[970,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192320","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\/192320"}],"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=192320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}