{"id":6223,"date":"2010-02-25T18:42:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2010-02-25T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:42:23","slug":"fed-probes-goldman-role-in-greek-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/25\/fed-probes-goldman-role-in-greek-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed probes Goldman role in Greek crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/ca979904-2216-11df-98dd-00144feab49a.html\">FT.com \/ Companies \/ Banks - Fed probes Goldman role in Greek crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Thursday that the US central bank was looking into Goldman Sachs&rsquo; role in creating credit default swaps for Greece.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are looking into a number of questions relating to Goldman Sachs and other companies and their arrangements with Greece,&rdquo; Mr Bernanke said, noting that the Securities and Exchange Commission was also interested in the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bernanke called any financial instruments that destabilise a company or country &ldquo;counterproductive&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we can call that an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>But the move is welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Serious action would be even more welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Financial transaction taxes are one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ Companies \/ Banks &#8211; Fed probes Goldman role in Greek crisis. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Thursday that the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/25\/fed-probes-goldman-role-in-greek-crisis\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transaction-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}