{"id":416390,"date":"2010-03-11T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:58:12","slug":"financial-reform-imploding-dems-declare-war-on-goldman-sachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416390","title":{"rendered":"Financial reform imploding; Dems declare War on Goldman Sachs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6295KM20100311\">So it looks like financial reform is going to be Dodd-Dodd rather than Dodd-Corker<\/a>. The consumer finance regulator is like the new public option, a real deal killer. Also not helping is the wider, harsher version of the Volcker Rule that a group of Dems have proposed. I call it the Goldman Sachs Rule since it is targeted at the supposed conflicts of interest GS has. Throwing GS into the mix further politicizes the process and makes compromise tougher. A real poison pill. But that might be the idea all along. Push a weak, Democrat-only bill vulnerable to a host of anti-bank amendments on the floor of the Senate. Then force Republicans to vote against them with the midterm elections looming. With the economy weak and healthcare unpopular, financial populist may be the only card Dems have to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like financial reform is going to be Dodd-Dodd rather than Dodd-Corker. The consumer finance regulator is like the new public option, a real deal killer. Also not helping is the wider, harsher version of the Volcker Rule that a group of Dems have proposed. I call it the Goldman Sachs Rule since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}