{"id":4217,"date":"2009-06-28T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T20:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4217"},"modified":"2009-06-28T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T21:00:11","slug":"goldman-sachs-benefitting-from-cap-and-trade-who-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/28\/goldman-sachs-benefitting-from-cap-and-trade-who-cares\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Sachs benefitting from Cap and Trade?  Who cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Matt Taibbi &#8211; Goldman Sachs dust-up &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2009\/06\/26\/goldman-sachs-responds-to-taibbi\/\">a bit of it here<\/a>,<br \/>\nhe brings to the attention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/6\/26\/747343\/-Who-Will-Profit-From-Cap-And-Trade-Not-Us.-\">Goldman Sachs is set to profit from the Cap and Trade bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <em>Mr. Goldman Sachs<\/em> would.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s very much plugged in to the trends, and can hedge his bets every which way in Congressional pieces of legislation.\u00c2\u00a0 So he&#8217;s moved forward based on that one, so intricately tied to the US Government that he is.<\/p>\n<p>Not really a good argument either way regarding Cap and Trade,\u00c2\u00a0as against some Goldman Sachs bashing\u00c2\u00a0in\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; for instance &#8212; the Dennis Kucinich question at the time of the first bank bail-out <em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Feyu2Db2QuU\">Is this the U.S. Congress or the Board of Directors at Goldman Sachs<\/a>?&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actually, I am left wondering about the greasing of the wheels for support from Big Corn in advancing the great savior &#8220;Ethanol&#8221;,\u00c2\u00a0skewing\u00c2\u00a0and disfiguring the policy unnaturally.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I have read a small amount of literature decrying Ethanol, and a smaller amount defending it.\u00c2\u00a0 My guess is that this geo-politically convenient\u00c2\u00a0energe source\u00c2\u00a0had better match the defenders&#8217;, lest this\u00c2\u00a0make &#8220;Cap and Trade&#8221; ever more useless, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Obama&#8217;s legacy turn out to be one of swatting flies.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it matters not so much.\u00c2\u00a0 It barely passed the House.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Anything<\/em> is supposed to be apt to pass the House.\u00c2\u00a0 I have\u00c2\u00a0a difficult time seeing the headlines as &#8220;Legislative Victory&#8221;, seeing the future in the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe a &#8220;Clean Coal&#8221; allowance can be greased through to keep Byrd on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Matt Taibbi &#8211; Goldman Sachs dust-up &#8212; a bit of it here, he brings to the attention that Goldman Sachs is set to profit from the Cap and Trade bill. Of course, Mr. Goldman Sachs would.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s very much plugged in to the trends, and can hedge his bets every which way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}