{"id":266,"date":"2004-05-24T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2004-05-24T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T09:01:20","slug":"politicians_stick_it_to_us_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Politicians stick it to us (again!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gretchen Morgenson writes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/23\/business\/yourmoney\/23watch.html?ei=5007&#038;en=ef53550d17324a97&#038;ex=1400644800&#038;partner=USERLAND&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;position=\">A Great Fund (for them, not you)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It&#8217;s easy to see why the Washington political class feels no need to right the wrongs in the fund industry. Those folks know how to take care of themselves. Low-cost, conflict-free money management is just one of the many special privileges lawmakers have arranged for themselves. Too bad the 91 million ordinary Americans who invest in funds can&#8217;t get the same deal. As Mr. Fitzgerald said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve created one mutual fund world for ourselves that is great and fair and we&#8217;ve created another for the rest of America that stinks.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.siliconvalley.com\/column\/dangillmor\/\">via Dan Gillmor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gretchen Morgenson writes: A Great Fund (for them, not you): It&#8217;s easy to see why the Washington political class feels no need to right the wrongs in the fund industry. Those folks know how to take care of themselves. Low-cost, conflict-free money management is just one of the many special privileges lawmakers have arranged for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}