{"id":1506,"date":"2008-09-17T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2010-10-18T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T10:52:34","slug":"us-investment-banks-should-have-not-been-left-in-the-hands-od-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"US Investment Banks should have not been left in the hands of traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an entrepreneur, I mourn the end of the era of US investment banks. \u00a0I am sorry that these venerable institutions were first taken over and then blown up by their own traders. Traders should have built their hedge funds and not gamble with the whole investment bank. \u00a0Entrepreneurs are now left with commercial banks to deal with. \u00a0These banks have less understanding of our businesses.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/techblog\/2008\/09\/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times\/\">Here\u00b4s a debate<\/a> by my buddy Brent Hoberman on this issue in the FT.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1506\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an entrepreneur, I mourn the end of the era of US investment banks. \u00a0I am sorry that these venerable institutions were first taken over and then blown up by their own traders. Traders should have built their hedge funds and not gamble with the whole investment bank. \u00a0Entrepreneurs are now left with commercial banks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,3],"tags":[232,519,723,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}