{"id":618,"date":"2008-03-02T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/03\/02\/a-bank-has-an-original-idea\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T23:35:05","slug":"a-bank-has-an-original-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/03\/02\/a-bank-has-an-original-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"A bank has an original idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

A first in business.<\/i><\/p>\n

When I was a lad learning about business, one of the oft quoted saws of the day was “If all else fails, run a bank”.<\/p>\n

That comment on bank management remains true today, though in America one would have to make it “…. run a big bank.” The simple reason being that if all goes well you get paid a lot and if you mess up really badly you still get paid a lot and the taxpayer bails you out. Economists call it moral hazard. I call it a broken system<\/p>\n

So when I was flipping through Fortune magazine at breakfast, I nearly choked on my muffin when coming across a really neat ad for, of all things, a bank. Can you remember ever<\/i> having used the word ‘neat’ and ‘bank’ in the same breath? No, neither can I. Fortune magazine, by the way, has long had a focus on using good photography – one of its early contributors being the estimable Margaret Bourke-White.<\/p>\n

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I would have preferred it in color with the shoes in red – this bank’s favorite color recently – but no matter. Any bank with a sense of humor is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A first in business. When I was a lad learning about business, one of the oft quoted saws of the day was “If all else fails, run a bank”. That comment on bank management remains true today, though in America one would have to make it “…. run a big bank.” The simple reason being … Continue reading A bank has an original idea<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}