{"id":192913,"date":"2009-02-05T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/05\/but-kevin-lewis-should-still-be-fired\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T02:24:00","slug":"but-kevin-lewis-should-still-be-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/05\/but-kevin-lewis-should-still-be-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"But Kevin Lewis Should Still Be Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have credible reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/americasDealsNews\/idUKTRE5140OA20090205\">Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke seriously twisted the Bank of America CEO&#8217;s arm to get him to finish the acquisition of Merrill Lynch<\/a>, so Merrill may not be entirely his fault, but Countrywide, a morass of fraud, bad banking, and incompetence is.<\/p>\n<p>He needs to go, so that those who would be like him will think twice before being so profligate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have credible reports that Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke seriously twisted the Bank of America CEO&#8217;s arm to get him to finish the acquisition of Merrill Lynch, so Merrill may not be entirely his fault, but Countrywide, a morass of fraud, bad banking, and incompetence is. He needs to go, so that those &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-192913","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\/192913"}],"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=192913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}