{"id":13486,"date":"2010-05-04T16:40:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T22:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2010-05-04T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T22:40:55","slug":"quants-the-alchemists-of-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13486","title":{"rendered":"Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Josh Buermann: things I learned from &#8220;capitalism, a love story&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Michael Moore is in the business of making money from a government  protected intellectual monopoly that costs American taxpayer money to  enforce, you are supposed to pay additional money to watch it.  Here  instead is &#8220;Quants&#8221;, from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VPRO\">VPRO<\/a>.   It&#8217;s not about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/iris-mack\/bob-rubin-just-wants-to-b_b_557621.html?page=2\">the  quant who was being stalked by Clinton&#8217;s Treasury Secretary<\/a>.  It&#8217;s  not about management idiots trying to get down the pants of their nerd  subordinates.  It&#8217;s about brilliant people who devote their lives to  destroying shit they don&#8217;t understand.  A little parable about humanity  it is.  The Dutch public <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netherlands_Public_Broadcasting\">paid<\/a> for this doc much as the American public paid to enforce Moore&#8217;s  private monopoly, except, having been paid for up front instead of  sideways, you can watch it here or anywhere for free<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/flagrancy.net\/entry-things_i_learned_from_capitalism-2574.html\">Read more\/View the film<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Buermann: things I learned from &#8220;capitalism, a love story&#8221; As Michael Moore is in the business of making money from a government protected intellectual monopoly that costs American taxpayer money to enforce, you are supposed to pay additional money &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3vw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13488,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}