{"id":193334,"date":"2008-12-23T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/23\/big-surprise-4\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:15:00","slug":"big-surprise-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/23\/big-surprise-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a reporter asked the banks about what they were doing with their bailout funds, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/28344934\">refused to answer<\/a>, except one bank with a vague, &#8220;reducing foreclosures,&#8221; which is, you know, like <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">a lie<\/span>, since foreclosures cost lots of money up front, and hit the balance sheet immediately.<\/p>\n<p>One bank said, &#8220;No comment,&#8221; and then asked the reporter not to quote them on that.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, some people need to go to jail for a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a reporter asked the banks about what they were doing with their bailout funds, they refused to answer, except one bank with a vague, &#8220;reducing foreclosures,&#8221; which is, you know, like a lie, since foreclosures cost lots of money up front, and hit the balance sheet immediately. One bank said, &#8220;No comment,&#8221; and then &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-193334","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\/193334"}],"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=193334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}