{"id":8062,"date":"2009-07-31T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/bankers_wrecked_banking_systems_massive_bonuses.html"},"modified":"2009-07-31T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:55:22","slug":"bankers-wrecked-banking-systems-massive-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/financial\/bankers-wrecked-banking-systems-massive-bonuses.html","title":{"rendered":"Bankers + Wrecked Banking Systems = Massive Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bravo to Avery Goodman who has summed up how the very bankers who destroyed millions of global jobs (to be fair they had lots of help from a raft of industries, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government-sponsored_enterprise\">GSEs<\/a> such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ratings agencies and the government) and effectively become civil servants are now raking in bonuses by the tens of billions.<\/p>\n<p>His response to those who say their special talents are worthy of such outlandish sums is, &#8220;I am not sure what kind of special &#8220;talent&#8221; it takes to destroy the world&#8217;s financial system, but I have no doubt that it does require very special skills.&#8221; Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/152907-33-billion-in-taxpayer-money-subsidized-wall-street-bonuses\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bravo to Avery Goodman who has summed up how the very bankers who destroyed millions of global jobs (to be fair they had lots of help from a raft of industries, GSEs such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ratings agencies and the government) and effectively become civil servants are now raking in bonuses by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}