{"id":194113,"date":"2008-10-23T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/23\/gary-larson-works-for-standard-poors-and-caused-the-credit-meltdown\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:20:00","slug":"gary-larson-works-for-standard-poors-and-caused-the-credit-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/23\/gary-larson-works-for-standard-poors-and-caused-the-credit-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Larson Works for Standard &#038; Poors and Caused the Credit Meltdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered what he did after he shuttered his daily <em>The Far Side<\/em> job, and now we know that he got a job at S&amp;P, because, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/27321998\">when cows are at the center of malfeasance<\/a>, Gary Larson will be there: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><strong>Official #1<\/strong>: <span>Btw<\/span> (by the way) that deal is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official #2<\/strong>: I know right&#8230;model def (definitely) does not capture half the risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official #1<\/strong>: We should not be rating it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official #2<\/strong>: We rate every deal. It could be <strong>structured by cows<\/strong> and we would rate it<\/span>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<em>emphasis mine<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Gary Larson rules our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered what he did after he shuttered his daily The Far Side job, and now we know that he got a job at S&amp;P, because, when cows are at the center of malfeasance, Gary Larson will be there: Official #1: Btw (by the way) that deal is ridiculous. Official #2: I know right&#8230;model &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-194113","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\/194113"}],"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=194113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}