{"id":11470,"date":"2012-07-04T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11470"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:50:08","slug":"dont-eat-fortunes-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/04\/dont-eat-fortunes-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Eat Fortune&#8217;s Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my previous post, <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/04\/a-simple-remedy-for-a-wall-street-danger\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A simple remedy for a Wall Street danger<\/strong><\/a>, reader RajV sent me a pointer to the video below with the introductory remark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt is mind-boggling that such controls are not already legislated on these banks. I came across this article that shows the caliber of people at the helms and the greed at work:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CiQ_T5C3hIM?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\"  allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>\nMichael Lewis, a member of Princeton&#8217;s Class of 1982 and author of such books as &#8220;Liar&#8217;s Poker&#8221; and &#8220;Moneyball,&#8221; speaks at the 2012 Baccalaureate in a speech called &#8220;Don&#8217;t Eat Fortune&#8217;s Cookie.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, RajV, among his other sterling qualities, is perhaps the most mathematically astute person that I have ever worked with.  I presume that he won&#8217;t blush for my having said so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my previous post, A simple remedy for a Wall Street danger, reader RajV sent me a pointer to the video below with the introductory remark: It is mind-boggling that such controls are not already legislated on these banks. I came across this article that shows the caliber of people at the helms [&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":{"0":"post-11470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470","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=11470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11472,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions\/11472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}