{"id":1408,"date":"2009-06-08T12:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2009-06-08T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T02:57:44","slug":"unlike-china-american-businessmen-dont-need-to-kowtow-to-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/unlike-china-american-businessmen-dont-need-to-kowtow-to-the-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlike China, American businessmen don&#8217;t need to kowtow to the Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or that&#8217;s what I thought.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/article\/20090607\/FREE\/306079975\">Here is a description<\/a> of a recent celebration for every banker&#8217;s favorite guy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, 600 people, including executives from Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase, filled the cavernous National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., for a $5,000-per-table tribute to the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. He is marshaling legislation that promises to make Wall Street a more regulated and less prosperous place for years to come, and to hear it from some of the bankers at the event, they couldn&#8217;t be happier that a tough-talking, capital-L Liberal Democrat from Massachusetts is leading the charge to rewrite their futures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IdD7cG4rz48\">Couldn&#8217;t be happier<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or that&#8217;s what I thought.\u00a0 Here is a description of a recent celebration for every banker&#8217;s favorite guy: Last week, 600 people, including executives from Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase, filled the cavernous National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., for a $5,000-per-table tribute to the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. He is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}