{"id":193082,"date":"2009-01-21T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/21\/financial-quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:57:00","slug":"financial-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/21\/financial-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/01\/transcript-of-tpmtvs-inauguration-interview-with-rep-barney-frank.php\">interview with Barney Frank<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">FRANK<\/span>: I have friends who said &#8216;well, Bank of America&#8217;s too big, shouldn&#8217;t we stop them from buying Countrywide?&#8217; &#8230; [M]y answer was,<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> I would have been happy if Syria bought Countrywide<\/span>, because it was one of the most irresponsible institutions out there. Bank of America has done a very good job &#8230; I did not know until you just told me that Fannie and Freddie were doing that and I can pretty much guarantee you that we will have put an end to that within a few days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ROTFLMAO<\/p>\n<p>Barney Frank is a funny, funny guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with Barney Frank: FRANK: I have friends who said &#8216;well, Bank of America&#8217;s too big, shouldn&#8217;t we stop them from buying Countrywide?&#8217; &#8230; [M]y answer was, I would have been happy if Syria bought Countrywide, because it was one of the most irresponsible institutions out there. Bank of America has done a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193082"}],"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=193082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}