{"id":1394,"date":"2010-05-06T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2010-05-06T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T09:11:00","slug":"a-huge-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/a-huge-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"A Huge Loophole!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As Financial reform moves forward in the Senate, there is still lots to change.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The financial reform bill made it through the first Republican filibuster last week and is being debated and amended now on the Senate floor.&#160; Regulating Wall Street isn&#8217;t easy, though, and economics journalist Zach Carter has noted that the proposed reforms are &quot;pretty flimsy&quot;&#8211;he uncovered a loophole that allows banks to continue to make illegal trades without punishment!\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grittv.org\/2010\/05\/05\/zach-carter-loopholes-in-financial-regulation-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grit TV<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/gdElgdv0UQI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"345\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This subject dovetails with our current poll.&#160; If you haven\u2019t voted yet, it\u2019s at the top of the right sidebar.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Financial reform moves forward in the Senate, there is still lots to change. The financial reform bill made it through the first Republican filibuster last week and is being debated and amended now on the Senate floor.&#160; Regulating Wall Street isn&#8217;t easy, though, and economics journalist Zach Carter has noted that the proposed reforms <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/a-huge-loophole\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}