{"id":192523,"date":"2009-03-22T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/22\/new-york-times-op-ed-asks-if-geithner-summers-bernanke-is-obamas-katrina-moment\/"},"modified":"2009-03-22T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T00:27:00","slug":"new-york-times-op-ed-asks-if-geithner-summers-bernanke-is-obamas-katrina-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/22\/new-york-times-op-ed-asks-if-geithner-summers-bernanke-is-obamas-katrina-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times OP\/ED Asks if Geithner\/Summers\/Bernanke is Obama&#8217;s Katrina Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Rich, who I generally find unobjectionable, but also unmemorable, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/22\/opinion\/22rich.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">asks this question<\/a>, and I believe that he may be right.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that Wall Street is being run by, and for, a corrupt class of overpaid crooks, and most of the country agrees with this, but Geithner\/Summers\/Bernanke believe that these folks posses the unique genius to fix the problem that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">they<\/span> have created.<\/p>\n<p>They are wrong, and unless, and until, the campaign to fix these things becomes a campaign against these folks too, a bit of reality that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/22\/opinion\/22dowd.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">even perennial light weight Maureen Dowd gets<\/a>, things will get worse.<\/p>\n<p>These people don&#8217;t work for their banks or brokerages, they work for their own benefit <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">at the expense<\/span> of those banks or brokerages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Rich, who I generally find unobjectionable, but also unmemorable, asks this question, and I believe that he may be right. I believe that Wall Street is being run by, and for, a corrupt class of overpaid crooks, and most of the country agrees with this, but Geithner\/Summers\/Bernanke believe that these folks posses the unique &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1064,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-media","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192523"}],"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=192523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}