{"id":674404,"date":"2010-02-22T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T22:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23050"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T22:32:51","slug":"goldman-sachs-ceo%e2%80%99s-giant-nuclear-powered-testicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/674404","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Sachs CEO\u2019s Giant, Nuclear-Powered Testicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23051\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/165px-Goldman_Sachs.svg.png?resize=165%2C165\" alt=\"Goldman_Sachs\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" \/>As described by the inimitable Matt Taibbi, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/32255149\/wall_streets_bailout_hustle\/print\">Rolling Stone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America&#8217;s pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO used the call to deploy his secret weapon: a pair of giant, nuclear-powered testicles. In his message, Blankfein addressed his plan to pay out gigantic year-end bonuses amid widespread controversy over Goldman&#8217;s role in precipitating the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The bank had already set aside a tidy $16.2 billion for salaries and bonuses \u2014 meaning that Goldman employees were each set to take home an average of $498,246, a number roughly commensurate with what they received during the bubble years. Still, the troops were worried: There were rumors that Dr. Ballsachs, bowing to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As described by the inimitable Matt Taibbi, for Rolling Stone: On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America&#8217;s pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO used the call to deploy his secret weapon: a pair of giant, nuclear-powered testicles. In his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Pru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}