{"id":3328,"date":"2018-05-25T07:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:54:39","slug":"barney-frank-bankster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Barney Frank, Bankster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Frank&#8217;s claims that Trump is not gutting the regulations that were passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis should be taken with not just a grain but a large block of salt, given that he now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2018\/05\/24\/a-lot-of-people-heard-what-barney-frank-said-about-the-new-banking-law-few-knew-he-works-for-a-bank\/\">sits on the board<\/a> of a bank poised to profit from the deregulation (no doubt at taxpayer expense when the next crisis rolls around).<\/p>\n<p>And the Dodd-Frank regulations themselves were weak in the first place; they failed to fully replace the Glass-Steagall Act (which itself was repealed with no small amount of Democratic Party complicity).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just the Republicans that are at fault; the Democrats are the party of banksters and capitalism, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Frank&#8217;s claims that Trump is not gutting the regulations that were passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis should be taken with not just a grain but a large block of salt, given that he now sits on the board of a bank poised to profit from the deregulation (no doubt at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalist-scum","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}