{"id":194357,"date":"2008-10-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/03\/me-bad-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:00:00","slug":"me-bad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/03\/me-bad-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Me Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Wachovia-Citi deal is off, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/27005897\">they will be purchased by Wells Fargo<\/a>, though Citi is saying that Wachovia can&#8217;t back out of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that they are looking for a breakup fee.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the Wells deal does <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> require FDIC assistance.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is that it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">was<\/span> a done deal yesterday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Wachovia-Citi deal is off, and they will be purchased by Wells Fargo, though Citi is saying that Wachovia can&#8217;t back out of the deal. My guess is that they are looking for a breakup fee. Interestingly enough, the Wells deal does not require FDIC assistance. All I can say is that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194357"}],"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=194357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}