{"id":10598,"date":"2012-04-04T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10598"},"modified":"2012-04-04T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:35:12","slug":"volcker-rule-would-cause-irreparable-damage-to-the-muppets-and-much-more-broadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/04\/04\/volcker-rule-would-cause-irreparable-damage-to-the-muppets-and-much-more-broadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcker Rule Would Cause Irreparable Damage to The Muppets \u2013 And Much More Broadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the post <a title=\"Simon Johnson article\" href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/8247-volcker-rule-would-cause-irreparable-damage-to-the-muppets-%E2%80%93-and-much-more-broadly\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Volcker Rule Would Cause Irreparable Damage to The Muppets \u2013 And Much More Broadly<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 Simon Johnson writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This, of course, is elementary economics \u2013 dating back as far as Adam Smith.\u00a0 If there is a profit-making opportunity to be had, then everyone will spurn it, unless they work for a massive international bank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those readers who are irony challenged, I suggest you look up <a title=\"Definition of Tongue-in-cheek\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tongue-in-cheek\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tongue-in-cheek<\/strong><\/a> in WikiPedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the post Volcker Rule Would Cause Irreparable Damage to The Muppets \u2013 And Much More Broadly,\u00a0 Simon Johnson writes: This, of course, is elementary economics \u2013 dating back as far as Adam Smith.\u00a0 If there is a profit-making opportunity to be had, then everyone will spurn it, unless they work for a massive international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10599,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598\/revisions\/10599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}