{"id":535783,"date":"2010-04-20T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011653373_goldmansachsaccusedoffraud.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:08:30","slug":"goldman-sachs-accused-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535783","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Sachs accused of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mindset on profit margins unhealthy for the economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We should have known that ignorance and stupidity did not create the mortgage debacle that brought down the nation\u2019s economy [\u201cSEC says Goldman Sachs misled investors,\u201d page one, April 17].<\/p>\n<p>The ethical void that could have led Paulson &#038; Co. to profit by betting against homebuyer is the same one that could propel investors to buy Goldman Sachs now. Who cares if the company is corrupt? There\u2019s money to be made. If that is all we, the public, care about \u2014 making money \u2014 then a corrupt economy is what we deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Until we begin basing investment decisions not only on companies\u2019 profit potential, but on their honor and contributions to humanity as well, we will not experience a true recovery.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Edie Lau, Poulsbo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindset on profit margins unhealthy for the economy We should have known that ignorance and stupidity did not create the mortgage debacle that brought down the nation\u2019s economy [\u201cSEC says Goldman Sachs misled investors,\u201d page one, April 17]. The ethical void that could have led Paulson &#038; Co. to profit by betting against homebuyer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535783","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}