{"id":14990,"date":"2013-10-28T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14990"},"modified":"2013-10-28T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:12:20","slug":"meet-3-master-manipulators-of-americas-oligarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/28\/meet-3-master-manipulators-of-americas-oligarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet 3 Master Manipulators of America\u2019s Oligarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the article <a title=\"Alternet article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/economy\/stanley-druckenmiller-pete-peterson-and-john-arnold\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meet 3 Master Manipulators of America\u2019s Oligarchy: Financiers Stanley Druckenmiller, Pete Peterson and John Arnold form a trifecta of treachery<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We bring you profiles of three financiers who never made a useful thing in their lives, including one who helped bring you the Enron disaster. They are united in their efforts to blame ordinary people for Wall Street-driven economic woes and carve out another pound of your flesh for the rich. Money is no object in their quest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have known about Pete Peterson for quite a while, but I had not heard of the other two until now. What confuses the heck out of me is that I have a lot of respect for <a title=\"Simon Johnson's Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Simon Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, even though his resume shows a stint at the Peterson Foundation. Could it be that Johnson escaped that job unscathed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the article Meet 3 Master Manipulators of America\u2019s Oligarchy: Financiers Stanley Druckenmiller, Pete Peterson and John Arnold form a trifecta of treachery. We bring you profiles of three financiers who never made a useful thing in their lives, including one who helped bring you the Enron disaster. They are united in their efforts [&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-14990","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\/14990","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=14990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14992,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990\/revisions\/14992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}