{"id":2035,"date":"2008-12-22T02:01:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2008-12-22T02:01:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T06:01:53","slug":"as-long-as-it-catches-the-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/22\/as-long-as-it-catches-the-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;as long as it catches the mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you look at every one of these [derivative] products, they make sense. But in aggregate, they are bullshit. They are crap. They serve to cheat people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I have to say it: you have to do something about pay in the financial system. People in this field have way too much money. And this is not right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It hurts to think, <em>Okay, now we have to be on equal footing to other people<\/em>. \u201cOn equal footing\u201d would necessarily mean that sometimes you have to stoop to appear to be humble to other people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I tell you that all of those quotes are from the same source, can you guess who it might be?<\/p>\n<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/print\/200812\/fallows-chinese-banker\">the answer<\/a> would surprise you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">If you look at every one of these [derivative] products, they make sense. But in aggregate, they are bullshit. They are crap. They serve to cheat people. I have to say it: you have to do something about pay in the financial system. People in this field have way too much money. And this is not right. It hurts to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/22\/as-long-as-it-catches-the-mouse\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[95,265,125,122],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-cultural-differences","tag-economics","tag-quote","tag-usa","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-wP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}