{"id":2470,"date":"2009-02-24T19:38:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T00:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2016-09-20T04:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:17:48","slug":"party-at-northern-trust-concert-and-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/party-at-northern-trust-concert-and-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer Paid Party at Northern Trust! Concert and Drinks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that there are several concerned in Washington about the massive spending spree that went on with money from Northern Trust. What appears to be a rampant abuse of taxpayer money has a few feathers ruffled. Golf <!--more-->outings, Cheryl Crow concerts and drinks, drinks, drinks&#8230; Party on finance-boys!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/northerfunds-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2477 aligncenter\" title=\"northerfunds\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/northerfunds-1.jpg\" alt=\"northerfunds\" width=\"506\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, by the way, maybe someone should tell Northern Trust management that they need to lay low and not spend TARP money for a while, until confidence is restored. \u00a0 At least until you can provide returns worth partying about. Your 2008 numbers are horrific, and these below include the 50% bond exposure for the family.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a letter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/\">TMZ &#8211; Celebrity News<\/a>, said to be authentic. Though there is no actual letterhead or signatures, it is surely what is on the minds of the signers&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/northern.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.morningstar.com\/newsnet\/printNews.aspx?article=\/dj\/200902241803dowjonesdjonline000652_univ.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(Here<\/strong><\/a> is another article on the subject.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" data=\"http:\/\/www.aolcdn.com\/tmz_documents\/northerntrust.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"plugin\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.aolcdn.com\/tmz_documents\/northerntrust.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that there are several concerned in Washington about the massive spending spree that went on with money from Northern Trust. What appears to be a rampant abuse of taxpayer money has a few feathers ruffled. Golf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42],"tags":[80,19,490],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-credit-crisis","tag-politics","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}