{"id":193519,"date":"2008-12-10T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/10\/in-blatantly-obvious-news\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T23:22:00","slug":"in-blatantly-obvious-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/10\/in-blatantly-obvious-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In Blatantly Obvious News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional oversight committee for TARP discovers that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/treasury-must-account-bailout-funds\/story.aspx?guid=%7B89074FD0-3D6F-46E0-9631-FB8797F9064D%7D&amp;dist=msr_18\">Hank Paulson and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> could not find their ass with both hands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No comprehensive plan for stabilizing markets.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear whether the equity for the money has been at fair value.<\/li>\n<li>Lacks transparency<\/li>\n<li>No followup on how the money is being used<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this is news because????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional oversight committee for TARP discovers that Hank Paulson and His Evil Minions\u2122 could not find their ass with both hands. Their findings: No comprehensive plan for stabilizing markets. It&#8217;s unclear whether the equity for the money has been at fair value. Lacks transparency No followup on how the money is being used And &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-193519","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\/193519"}],"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=193519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}