{"id":23554,"date":"2011-11-08T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/in-the-category-of-very-rare-cases-in-which-i-agree-with-newt.html"},"modified":"2011-11-08T20:51:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:51:34","slug":"in-the-category-of-very-rare-cases-in-which-i-agree-with-newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/in-the-category-of-very-rare-cases-in-which-i-agree-with-newt.html","title":{"rendered":"In the category of &quot;Very Rare Cases In Which I Agree With Newt&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To hear Gingrich actually suggest that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was &quot;probably a mistake&quot; is &#8230; remarkable. Especially given how hard he pressed for it during his abortive role as House Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>That someone <i>ever<\/i> thought it was a good idea to allow the same financial institutions that hold your savings and checking accounts also run much higher risk investment banking business is even more remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#39;d expect Obama to ever suggest doing so, but I have to wonder what level of vitriol would come out from the Right were he to make a similar suggestion that we should reinstate Glass-Steagall regulations. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2Fgingrich1019.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/11\/08\/364404\/gingrich-wall-street-deregulation-mistak\/'>Gingrich Admits Deregulation Of Wall Street In The \u201990s Was \u2018Probably A Mistake\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeveral of the GOP\u2019s 2012 presidential hopefuls have called \u2014 loudly and often \u2014 for the repeal of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which is aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2008 financial cris&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To hear Gingrich actually suggest that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was &quot;probably a mistake&quot; is &#8230; remarkable. Especially given how hard he pressed for it during his abortive role as House Speaker. That someone ever thought it was a good idea to allow the same financial institutions that hold your savings and checking accounts also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/in-the-category-of-very-rare-cases-in-which-i-agree-with-newt.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the category of &quot;Very Rare Cases In Which I Agree With Newt&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,77,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economy","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29897,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/reinstate-glass-steagall.html","url_meta":{"origin":23554,"position":0},"title":"Reinstate Glass-Steagall","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Aug-12 10:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, ignore the rhetoric on the page. \u00a0Jefferson was kind of a jerk when it came to such things, and the commentary is 95% content-free.In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, which led to widespread bank failure, the Glass-Steagall Act was passed to separate banking activities between commercial\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38233,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/11\/restoring-sanity-to-the-banking-industry-inconceivable.html","url_meta":{"origin":23554,"position":1},"title":"Restoring sanity to the banking industry? Inconceivable!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Jul-13 2:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the one hand you have traditional banking services. \u00a0That includes your checking account, your savings account, your business account, \u00a0etc.On the other hand, you have your speculative banking services. \u00a0That includes investment banking.The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 required banks to keep those separate -- indeed, to keep them as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":23554,"position":2},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":23554,"position":3},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). Anyway, if you've ever wanted to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":127704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/happy-blogaversary-to-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":23554,"position":4},"title":"Happy Blogaversary to Me","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Aug-15 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"My blog is fourteen years old today. \u00a0Well, yesterday, actually. It was kind of a busy day. I started my blog, alas, after the birth of my daughter (who was a year and a half old then), but just in time (also alas) for 9\/11. And it's been running long\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/keep-calm-and-blog-on.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":27255,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/by-the-content-of-their-character.html","url_meta":{"origin":23554,"position":5},"title":"By the content of their character?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Mar-12 2:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A sad, maddeningly tale. #ddtb Embedded Link When the rug is pulled | The Crommunist Manifesto The following paragraph is going to come across as excessively self-congratulatory. I suggest you buckle in for a brag-fest of epic proportions. I am well above-average in the success department. By a...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}