{"id":193523,"date":"2008-12-09T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/09\/because-the-banks-are-more-important-than-people\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:26:00","slug":"because-the-banks-are-more-important-than-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/09\/because-the-banks-are-more-important-than-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Because the Banks are More Important than People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Bernanke has said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aTWTFX.9IPWc&amp;refer=home\">he will not use the fed lending facility<\/a>, already bailing out banks to the tune of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">trillions<\/span> of dollars to provide liquidity to the auto makers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that Obama can&#8217;t get rid of him until the end of his term, but how about asking him to resign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Bernanke has said that he will not use the fed lending facility, already bailing out banks to the tune of trillions of dollars to provide liquidity to the auto makers. It&#8217;s true that Obama can&#8217;t get rid of him until the end of his term, but how about asking him to resign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1004,985,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-finance","category-regulation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193523"}],"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=193523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}