{"id":762,"date":"2011-10-17T11:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=762"},"modified":"2011-10-17T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:29:47","slug":"financiers-for-occupying-wall-street-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/financiers-for-occupying-wall-street-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Financiers for Occupying Wall Street [interview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, the Huffington Post sent me a press alert saying that Mohammed el-Erian had written a blog post warning readers to \u201clisten to Occupy Wall Street.\u201d That caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t know el-Erian, he\u2019s a co-CEO of PIMCO, one of the world\u2019s largest \u2014 and wealthiest \u2014 bond trading operations, with more than $1 trillion under management. Despite being based in Southern California, PIMCO and its leaders are titans in finance. So I called el-Erian to ask him what exactly he saw in this movement that is, in large part, dedicated to combating his industry.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/financiers-for-occupying-wall-street\/2011\/08\/25\/gIQAypFwjL_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">Financiers for Occupying Wall Street &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, the Huffington Post sent me a press alert saying that Mohammed el-Erian had written a blog post warning readers to \u201clisten to Occupy Wall Street.\u201d That caught my eye. For those who don\u2019t know el-Erian, he\u2019s a co-CEO of PIMCO, one of the world\u2019s largest \u2014 and wealthiest \u2014 bond trading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[454,456,256,410,455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}