{"id":16662,"date":"2009-12-14T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/white_house_lashes_out_at_bankers\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T03:00:48","slug":"white_house_lashes_out_at_bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16662","title":{"rendered":"White House Lashes Out at Bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama and his economic team lashed out at Wall Street, with the president calling bankers &#8220;fat cats&#8221; who &#8220;don&#8217;t get it,&#8221; in a move that could escalate tensions with the nation&#8217;s biggest bankers ahead of a meeting with industry representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama, speaking on the eve of Monday&#8217;s meeting with the heads of top banks at the White House, said he would try to persuade bankers to free up more credit to businesses, with the aim of helping boost job growth. But the president also expressed frustration with banks that the government has assisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street,&#8221; Mr. Obama said in an interview to be broadcast on CBS&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; program Sunday evening, according to excerpts made available ahead of the program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126073152465089651.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama and his economic team lashed out at Wall Street, with the president calling bankers &#8220;fat cats&#8221; who &#8220;don&#8217;t get it,&#8221; in a move that could escalate tensions with the nation&#8217;s biggest bankers ahead of a meeting with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16662\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,616,151,667,599,585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-stock-market","category-the-banking-systemsector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}