{"id":2071,"date":"2011-10-17T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2011-10-17T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:42:10","slug":"great-white-northern-class-traitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/great-white-northern-class-traitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Great White Northern Class Traitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add central banker Mark Carney (governor of the Bank of Canada\u2014and former vampire squidite) to the list of <del>class traitors<\/del> unlikely supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, calling it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/bank-of-canada-head-calls-occupy-protests-entirely-constructive\/article2202064\/\">entirely constructive<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a television interview, Mr. Carney acknowledged that the movement is an understandable product of the &#8220;increase in inequality&#8221; \u2013 particularly in the United States \u2013 that started with globalization and was thrust into sharp relief by the worst downturn since the Great Depression, which hit the less well-educated and blue-collar segments of the population hardest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carney, whom the Harper government is pushing as the next head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialstabilityboard.org\/about\/overview.htm\">Financial Stability Board<\/a>, was also the proximate <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.businessinsider.com\/2011-09-27\/wall_street\/30207348_1_basel-iii-speech-capital-requirements\">instigator<\/a> of Jamie Dimon&#8217;s well-publicized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/b62779c6-e7a4-11e0-9da3-00144feab49a.html#axzz1b3p7J0Df\">tirade<\/a> last month about &#8220;anti-American&#8221; financial regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add central banker Mark Carney (governor of the Bank of Canada\u2014and former vampire squidite) to the list of class traitors unlikely supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, calling it &#8220;entirely constructive&#8220;: In a television interview, Mr. Carney acknowledged that the movement is an understandable product of the &#8220;increase in inequality&#8221; \u2013 particularly in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-reform"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}