{"id":8352,"date":"2011-04-05T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2011-04-05T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:00:47","slug":"its-like-those-miserable-psalms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8352","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Like Those Miserable Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 they&#8217;re soooo depressing.<\/p>\n<p>This story about a bank getting off light, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2011\/04\/wachovia-paid-trivial-fine-for-nearly-400-billion-of-drug-related-money-laundering.html\">Wachovia Paid Trivial Fine for Nearly $400 Billion of Drug Related Money Laundering<\/a>,  made me flash back to two recent stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216?print=true\">Why Isn&#8217;t Wall Street in Jail?<\/a> and another article (whose title or link I can&#8217;t recall) pointing out the ridiculousness of fining a company trivial amounts for large illegal profits.  If the penalty is less than the profit, that&#8217;s not a deterrent \u2014 it&#8217;s a business plan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 they&#8217;re soooo depressing. This story about a bank getting off light, Wachovia Paid Trivial Fine for Nearly $400 Billion of Drug Related Money Laundering, made me flash back to two recent stories: Why Isn&#8217;t Wall Street in Jail? and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}