{"id":896,"date":"2012-08-25T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/?p=896"},"modified":"2012-08-25T00:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T22:00:41","slug":"the-lobbyists-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/2012\/08\/25\/the-lobbyists-and-us\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>THE LOBBYISTS AND US<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a title=\"LES LOBBYISTES ET NOUS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/?p=40755\">Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell.<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> today:<\/p>\n<p>A new American law requires US-listed companies to mention on products <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444082904577605630361858586.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories\">containing certain minerals<\/a> that their extraction fuels conflict in Central Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Too expensive for businesses, said the lobbyists! Get rid of it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Securities and Exchange Commission<\/em> (SEC), the financial regulator in the US, has developed a host of measures designed to prevent a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444082904577606032286122676.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories\">repetition of the collapse in short-term money markets<\/a>, which cost American taxpayers more than six hundred billion dollars, plus a few hundred billion Euros for European taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Too expensive for the banks, said the lobbyists! Get rid of it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"LES LOBBYISTES ET NOUS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/?p=40755\">Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell.<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> today:<\/p>\n<p>A new American law requires US-listed companies to mention on products <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444082904577605630361858586.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories\">containing certain minerals<\/a> that their extraction fuels conflict in Central Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Too expensive for businesses, said the lobbyists! Get rid of it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Securities and [&hellip;]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[211,210],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-politics","tag-money-markets","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}