{"id":193546,"date":"2008-12-08T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/08\/not-enough-bullets-john-thain-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:22:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-john-thain-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/08\/not-enough-bullets-john-thain-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets: John Thain Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the CEO of Merrill-Lynch wants a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/28107594\">$10 million year end bonus<\/a>, despite losing money in each of the previous 4 quarters, over $11 billion for the year, and were in such dire straits that they had to sell themselves to Bank of America, and he wants a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>What is this?  Are investment banks a form of Ivy League welfare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the CEO of Merrill-Lynch wants a $10 million year end bonus, despite losing money in each of the previous 4 quarters, over $11 billion for the year, and were in such dire straits that they had to sell themselves to Bank of America, and he wants a bonus. What is this? Are investment banks &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193546"}],"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=193546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}