{"id":196612,"date":"2008-04-08T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/08\/bush-appointee-fdic-chairwoman-calls-for-government-activism\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T02:00:00","slug":"bush-appointee-fdic-chairwoman-calls-for-government-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/08\/bush-appointee-fdic-chairwoman-calls-for-government-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Appointee  FDIC Chairwoman Calls for Government Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2008\/04\/07\/fdic-chairwoman-calls-for-activism\/?mod=WSJBlog?mod=homeblogmod_economicsblog\">FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair calling for an &#8220;activist&#8221; government response to the mortgage meltdown<\/a>.  Let&#8217;s make this clear, Ms. Bair is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" >Bush appointee<\/span>, and when a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bush appointee<\/span> is asking for government activism, we can be sure that we are well past being up to our hips in alligators.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re at least nipple deep in alligators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair calling for an &#8220;activist&#8221; government response to the mortgage meltdown. Let&#8217;s make this clear, Ms. Bair is a Bush appointee, and when a Bush appointee is asking for government activism, we can be sure that we are well past being up to our hips in alligators. We&#8217;re at least nipple &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,1004,1088,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-finance","category-real-estate","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196612"}],"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=196612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}