{"id":1308,"date":"2008-09-24T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2008-09-24T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:10:59","slug":"save-the-goldman-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/24\/save-the-goldman-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Goldman Bonuses!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis takes a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a6a6nqXGVdZY\">what&#8217;s really important right now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I think it&#8217;s an enormous mistake to focus on executive compensation in the context of the bailout proposal.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, there&#8217;s a gut-level appeal in taking something away from these frauds (and they *are* frauds), but the size of their compensation &#8211; on its own &#8211; is a miniscule part of the problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Democrats really ought not be distracted by that when there are more fundamental issues to focus on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis takes a look at what&#8217;s really important right now. As an aside, I think it&#8217;s an enormous mistake to focus on executive compensation in the context of the bailout proposal.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, there&#8217;s a gut-level appeal in taking something away from these frauds (and they *are* frauds), but the size of their compensation &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}