{"id":17350,"date":"2010-01-18T00:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_wall_street_and_values\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T00:39:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:39:41","slug":"religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_wall_street_and_values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17350","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Wall Street and Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOB ABERNETHY, host: As public outrage continues over Wall Street\u2019s plans to pay multimillion-dollar bonuses to its top executives and traders, President Obama called such bonuses \u201cobscene\u201d\u009d and proposed a new tax on the country\u2019s largest banks.  Meanwhile, the heads of the four largest investment banks were the first witnesses before a bipartisan commission investigating the causes of last year\u2019s financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A new book out this week called \u201cRediscovering Values\u201d\u009d urges moral as well as economic reforms. Its author is Rev. Jim Wallace of Sojourners magazine. Jim, welcome. As you look back at the causes of the so-called Great Recession, what are the most important ones that you see?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/january-15-2010\/wall-street-and-values\/5482\">Read or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOB ABERNETHY, host: As public outrage continues over Wall Street\u2019s plans to pay multimillion-dollar bonuses to its top executives and traders, President Obama called such bonuses \u201cobscene\u201d\u009d and proposed a new tax on the country\u2019s largest banks. Meanwhile, the heads<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17350\">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":[39,40,149,168,108,599,585,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-stock-market","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350","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=17350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}