{"id":930,"date":"2010-05-02T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2010-05-02T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T15:40:27","slug":"the-masters-of-the-universe-a-great-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"The Masters of the Universe &#8211; a great year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Henwood, der recht beharrlich insistiert, dass die Erholung des US-Kapitalismus begonnen hat, vermerkte schon vor Wochen in seinem unverzichtbaren <a href=\"http:\/\/doughenwood.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/05\/radio-commentary-april-1-2010\/\">Blog <\/a>als ein sehr deutliches Indiz:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, but 2009 was a great year for the masters of the universe! The top 25 hedge fund managers pulled in an average of $1 billion last year. The man at the very top, David Tepper, took home $4 billion. Next up was that great liberal humanist, George Soros, at $3.3 billion. The poor relation at #10, Philip Falcone, hauled in $825 million. The $25 billion that this gang collectively earned would be enough to pay the tuition for about one in five college and university students in the USA. That\u2019s only a hair less what the federal government pays in tuition assistance. Twenty-five guys (all men, by the way). What a country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Henwood, der recht beharrlich insistiert, dass die Erholung des US-Kapitalismus begonnen hat, vermerkte schon vor Wochen in seinem unverzichtbaren Blog als ein sehr deutliches Indiz: Oh, but 2009 was a great year for the masters of the universe! The top 25 hedge fund managers pulled in an average of $1 billion last year. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/?p=930\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eThe Masters of the Universe &#8211; a great year!\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,8],"tags":[40,29],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-krise","category-ruling-class","tag-reichtum","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainer-rilling.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}