{"id":567,"date":"2010-07-17T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T04:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=567"},"modified":"2010-07-17T22:21:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T04:21:54","slug":"what-simon-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/07\/17\/what-simon-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Simon Said"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are very few people I pay attention to when it comes to discussions of financial reform and fixing the broken stuff. \u00c2\u00a0At the top of the list are Simon Johnson<\/a> and Elizabeth Warren<\/a>. No surprise: neither is liked by the moneyed interests that dominate the policy apparatus in the White House and Department of Treasury.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Johnson has launched a public offensive<\/a> designed to illuminate the behind-the-scenes moves being taken at Treasury to bypass Warren as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau\u00e2\u20ac\u201done of the few aspects of our alleged financial reform that actually amounts to something.<\/p>\n

Here’s Simon Johnson yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[…] there will be complete and utter revulsion at its handling of financial regulatory reform both on this specific issue and much more broadly.\u00c2\u00a0 The administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s position in this area is already weak, its achievements remain minimal, its speaking points are lame, and the patience of even well-inclined people is wearing thin.<\/p>\n

Failing to appoint Elizabeth Warren would be the straw that breaks the camel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back.\u00c2\u00a0 It will go down in the history books as a turning point \u00e2\u20ac\u201c downwards \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for this administration.\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well the camel’s back has been broken for me since the health care reform charade. I’ve been done with the Kool-Aide for quite a while.<\/p>\n

But maybe I’m just a cynic (you think?) and Johnson’s challenge can make a difference. Wanna place a bet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are very few people I pay attention to when it comes to discussions of financial reform and fixing the broken stuff. \u00c2\u00a0At the top of the list are Simon Johnson and Elizabeth Warren. No surprise: neither is liked by the moneyed interests that dominate the policy apparatus in the White House and Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}