{"id":567,"date":"2009-11-25T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:03:04","slug":"complete-banker-no-free-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/complete-banker-no-free-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete Banker: no free lunch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/8378359.stm\">According to Stephen Hester<\/a> when discussing bank charges:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBanks had to meet the costs of doing business.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From a bank who had billions chucked at it after failing at business and then billions more in secret so that it&#8217;s share price wouldn&#8217;t plummet more. They then started discussing how many staff to make redundant.<\/p>\n<p>The bare faced cheek of the man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stephen Hester when discussing bank charges: Banks had to meet the costs of doing business. From a bank who had billions chucked at it after failing at business and then billions more in secret so that it&#8217;s share price wouldn&#8217;t plummet more. They then started discussing how many staff to make redundant. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[425,426,427],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rant","tag-banks","tag-economy","tag-rbs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}