{"id":195908,"date":"2008-06-06T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/06\/federal-reserve-approves-bank-of-americas-countrywide-buyout\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:27:00","slug":"federal-reserve-approves-bank-of-americas-countrywide-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/06\/federal-reserve-approves-bank-of-americas-countrywide-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve Approves Bank of America&#8217;s Countrywide Buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/06\/bank_of_america_wins_approval.php\">they have approval<\/a>, perhaps someone should consider if they really want them to do this.<\/p>\n<p>This deal, in which BoA hooks itself to a black hole of bad debt and corruption is not to their advantage.  To quote the Rude pundit, it&#8217;s a &#8220;stupid mistake, akin to a family of lemurs inviting a boa constrictor over for dinner.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that they have approval, perhaps someone should consider if they really want them to do this. This deal, in which BoA hooks itself to a black hole of bad debt and corruption is not to their advantage. To quote the Rude pundit, it&#8217;s a &#8220;stupid mistake, akin to a family of lemurs inviting a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195908"}],"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=195908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}