{"id":29698,"date":"2022-08-21T20:12:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T00:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29698"},"modified":"2022-08-21T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T00:12:35","slug":"closing-down-the-billionaire-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/08\/21\/closing-down-the-billionaire-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Down the Billionaire Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Stoller has a guest author who wrote the article <a href=\"https:\/\/mattstoller.substack.com\/p\/closing-down-the-billionaire-factory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Closing Down the Billionaire Factory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn a memoir with the cringeworthy title &#8220;What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence&#8221;, Stephen Schwarzman, the co-founder of Blackstone explains how his private equity giant came to control money from the nation\u2019s largest public pension funds.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I have known some of this before, but this is worse than I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Stoller has a guest author who wrote the article Closing Down the Billionaire Factory. In a memoir with the cringeworthy title &#8220;What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence&#8221;, Stephen Schwarzman, the co-founder of Blackstone explains how his private equity giant came to control money from the nation\u2019s largest public pension funds. I [&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-29698","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\/29698","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=29698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29699,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698\/revisions\/29699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}