{"id":198307,"date":"2007-11-19T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/19\/my-heart-bleeds-borscht-for-these-gonniffs%c2%86\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T11:05:00","slug":"my-heart-bleeds-borscht-for-these-gonniffs%c2%86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/19\/my-heart-bleeds-borscht-for-these-gonniffs%c2%86\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heart Bleeds Borscht* for These Gonniffs\u0086"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Dear!!!  Some <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/11\/16\/markets\/wallstreet_bonuses\/index.htm?postversion=2007111614\">Wall Street pukes at the center of the mortgage debacle may find their bonuses cut in half<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The hardest hit will be the salespeople dealing with mortgage-backed securities, according to Options Group director Eric Moskowitz. Their average bonus will be about $1 million compared with $2 million last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only a million dollar bonus????  Cry me a river.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This is sarcastic. I feel no sympathy.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This means &#8220;thief&#8221; in Yiddish, which is largely archaic German.  It is from the Hebrew ganov, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarius.com\/cantales.htm\">you find the term &#8220;gnof&#8221; in Chaucer<\/a>, meaning &#8220;churl&#8221; or &#8220;peasant&#8221; generally, which probably has the same Hebrew roots.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Dear!!! Some Wall Street pukes at the center of the mortgage debacle may find their bonuses cut in half. The hardest hit will be the salespeople dealing with mortgage-backed securities, according to Options Group director Eric Moskowitz. Their average bonus will be about $1 million compared with $2 million last year. Only a million &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,973,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-economy","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198307"}],"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=198307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}