{"id":7549,"date":"2018-09-25T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2018-09-25T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:32:53","slug":"matt-taibbi-on-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-crash-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/matt-taibbi-on-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-crash-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Taibbi on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Crash \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An argument is frequently put forth that the government made a huge profit on the bailouts. This is an impossible stance to counter. It\u2019s like trying to quantify how plaid something is. Sure, in an environment in which the chief bailout recipients were allowed virtually limitless access to free capital;\u00a0affirmatively non-prosecuted for severe regulatory violations (like rigging electricity prices or laundering money for drug cartels); repeatedly saved from crippling litigation by sweetheart settlements;\u00a0an<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/financial-crisis-ten-year-anniversary-723798\/\">Matt Taibbi on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Crash \u2013 Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An argument is frequently put forth that the government made a huge profit on the bailouts. This is an impossible stance to counter. It\u2019s like trying to quantify how plaid something is. Sure, in an environment in which the chief bailout recipients were allowed virtually limitless access to free capital;\u00a0affirmatively non-prosecuted for severe regulatory violations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/matt-taibbi-on-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-crash-rolling-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matt Taibbi on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Crash \u2013 Rolling Stone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}