{"id":682306,"date":"2010-03-04T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:39:26","slug":"the-volcker-rule-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682306","title":{"rendered":"The Volcker Rule, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN0325668420100303\">continuing to push the Volcker Rule<\/a> to ban prop trading by banks. My sources give me no indication this has a realistic chance of happening. Certainly none of the key members &#8212; Dodd, Shelby, Corker, Warner &#8212; have warmed to it. So why is Obama pushing it, then? Hey, it is about the only part of his agenda with any popular support. Certainly not healthcare or cap-and-trade or the stimulus. Anti-Wall Street populism works, so more anti-Wall Street populism we will get. This is also why the GOP wants to pass a financial reform bill. It deprives Dems of a political weapon that plays on the stereotype of Republicans as the Party of the Rich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is continuing to push the Volcker Rule to ban prop trading by banks. My sources give me no indication this has a realistic chance of happening. Certainly none of the key members &#8212; Dodd, Shelby, Corker, Warner &#8212; have warmed to it. So why is Obama pushing it, then? Hey, it is about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":821,"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-682306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RuW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682306","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\/821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}