{"id":197,"date":"2015-05-11T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2015-05-04T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T08:28:57","slug":"that-celebrated-icon-of-american-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"That celebrated icon of American Investing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffet, philanthropist and purported icon of a more humane capitalism. Celebrated by the right and center as a general example of the payoff of decades of hard work careful investment, and noddingly approved by the center-left for his criticism of cronyism-capitalism and a progressive stance on taxing the rich. (Damn, were they easy to buy off. Pop the bubbly, Bill!)<\/p>\n<p>However, those billions are not that hard to shovel in, when at least some of it is based on the usual old methods of squeezing the hard-off:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-04-06\/warren-buffett-slumlord-%E2%80%93-predatory-loans-kickbacks-preying-poor\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-04-06\/warren-buffett-slumlord-%E2%80%93-predatory-loans-kickbacks-preying-poor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffet, philanthropist and purported icon of a more humane capitalism. Celebrated by the right and center as a general example of the payoff of decades of hard work careful investment, and noddingly approved by the center-left for his criticism of cronyism-capitalism and a progressive stance on taxing the rich. (Damn, were they easy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haxor.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}