{"id":3324,"date":"2010-04-17T09:09:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T16:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:25:07","slug":"sec-scrambles-for-relevance-via-goldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/sec-scrambles-for-relevance-via-goldman\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Scrambles For Relevance Via Goldman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>H<\/b>enry Blodget (yes, that Henry of the you&#8217;re-so-fired-for-a-tech-bubble-scam) is now a cited blogger on business matters. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-wow-is-this-why-the-sec-announced-the-goldman-fraud-charges-friday-morning-2010-4\"> He speculates that the SEC surprise, unannounced suit against Goldman was timed and framed to obscure a scathing internal SEC review of its failure to act or investigate documented ponzi schemes going back to 1997.<\/a>  Speculative.  But such craven, self-serving actions are a commonplace in D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/columns\/2010\/04\/16\/sec-tries-to-ride-goldman-back-to-credibility\/\">Reuters doesn&#8217;t go that far but also declares the SEC is using Goldman.<\/a>  They note clumsy efforts to scramble after the meltdown and pursue firms have been swatted down by courts and judges.   Some judicial dismissals of SEC&#8217;s after-the-act ham fisted enforcement are scathing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SEC_BITES_Ankle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SEC_BITES_Ankle.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"We&#039;ll Bite You!  Stop!  Really!   This Time We&#039;re Serious !!\" width=\"493\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SEC_BITES_Ankle.jpg 493w, http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/SEC_BITES_Ankle-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>__________<\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>P<\/b>undits intone that SEC&#8217;s Goldman suit will bolster significantly Dodd&#8217;s <strike>the toothless and greatly watered down<\/strike> &#8216;financial reform&#8217; bill.  Republicans didn&#8217;t get the memo and have better focus group research.   There&#8217;s always a tension in cynical D.C. between doing something or doing just enough to keep an issue alive for the next campaign.   In our current meme environment, it&#8217;s even more stark. Actual achievement in any legislation is irrelevant to the perception in hyper-real twit-like consumptions.  Thus, the astoundingly weak Dodd bill is already being amped up like a HiWatt stack as radical, massive &#8216;reform.&#8217;   <\/p>\n<p>Of all the people forced to chow down on that thin gruel, how bitter it must taste to the Left [sic],  Progressives and Others Who Know Better.  Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Blodget (yes, that Henry of the you&#8217;re-so-fired-for-a-tech-bubble-scam) is now a cited blogger on business matters. He speculates that the SEC surprise, unannounced suit against Goldman was timed and framed to obscure a scathing internal SEC review of its failure to act or investigate documented ponzi schemes going back to 1997. Speculative. But such craven, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comedy","7":"category-economic-meltdown","8":"category-election-2012","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}