{"id":4859,"date":"2017-06-02T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2017-06-02T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T07:41:45","slug":"toys-thrown-from-goldman-sachs-pram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4859\/","title":{"rendered":"Toys Thrown from Goldman Sachs Pram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Tweet by the CEO of Goldman Sachs amused me for two reasons:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today&#8217;s decision is a setback for the environment and for the U.S.&#8217;s leadership position in the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ParisAgreement?src=hash\">#ParisAgreement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lloydblankfein\/status\/870389673193082880\">June 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The first is all the lefties getting their knickers wet over a Tweet &#8211; his first &#8211; by the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Since when have the left been supporters of colossal, too-big-to-fail American investment banks\u00a0with suspiciously Jewish-sounding names? I remember the days when governments were in hoc to the big, evil banking corporations which\u00a0single-handedly brought about the global financial crisis. But when, in a naked display of financial self-interest, Goldman Sachs and others came out in opposition to Brexit the left told us we should all heed their warnings. And now they&#8217;re at it again.<\/p>\n<p>The second reason this amuses me is because it&#8217;s obvious\u00a0Goldman Sachs is about to lose a shit-tonne of money over the US pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. I bet they had all sorts of &#8220;green&#8221; investment funds and other rent-seeking and subsidy-harvesting vehicles ready to go, which would represent a transfer of wealth from ordinary citizens to the executives at Goldman Sachs. And now Trump&#8217;s come and spoiled the party for them.<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Tweet by the CEO of Goldman Sachs amused me for two reasons: Today&#8217;s decision is a setback for the environment and for the U.S.&#8217;s leadership position in the world. #ParisAgreement \u2014 Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) June 1, 2017 The first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4859\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,80,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4862,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}