{"id":1984,"date":"2009-02-04T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2009-02-03T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T03:55:02","slug":"wall-street-exec-i%e2%80%99d-almost-rather-say-i%e2%80%99m-a-pornographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Exec: “I\u2019d almost rather say I\u2019m a pornographer.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[digg-reddit-me]David Segal of The New York Times <\/em>interviewed a former Wall Street executive who wished to remain anonymous for his article on how “Wall Street” has become a financial epithet<\/a>. The executive said:<\/p>\n

I\u2019d almost rather say I\u2019m a pornographer. \u00a0At least that\u2019s a business that people understand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The self-pity is unbecoming – and the lack of an acknowledgement of responsibility is not surprising. After all – it was indecent greed and irresponsibility that got Wall Street into such trouble.<\/p>\n

What’s funny is – I think this anonymous executive is right. Whether in New York or Topeka, a pornographer is now held in more esteem than a Wall Street banker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[digg-reddit-me]David Segal of The New York Times interviewed a former Wall Street executive who wished to remain anonymous for his article on how “Wall Street” has become a financial epithet. The executive said: I\u2019d almost rather say I\u2019m a pornographer. \u00a0At least that\u2019s a business that people understand. The self-pity is unbecoming – and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1032,4],"tags":[1325,130,128],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-crisis-economics","category-politics","tag-david-segal","tag-new-york-times","tag-wall-street"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-w0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}