{"id":195315,"date":"2008-07-16T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/did-goldman-sachs-deliberate-bring-bear-stearns-down\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:20:00","slug":"did-goldman-sachs-deliberate-bring-bear-stearns-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/did-goldman-sachs-deliberate-bring-bear-stearns-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Goldman Sachs Deliberate Bring Bear Stearns Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Alan Schwartz, who was head of Bear Stearns when it imploded is asking <a href=\"http:\/\/dailybriefing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2008\/07\/16\/goldman-in-the-hotseat\/\">whether Goldman Sachs was aggressively shorting and talking down Bear Stearns to generate a quick profit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would not be surprised.  The same was alleged regarding the collapse of hedge fund Long Term Capital Management in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street is a cesspool, and it needs to be drained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Alan Schwartz, who was head of Bear Stearns when it imploded is asking whether Goldman Sachs was aggressively shorting and talking down Bear Stearns to generate a quick profit. I would not be surprised. The same was alleged regarding the collapse of hedge fund Long Term Capital Management in the late 1990s. Wall &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-195315","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\/195315"}],"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=195315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}