{"id":803,"date":"2012-10-27T21:38:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2012-10-27T21:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T21:38:56","slug":"bankers-without-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/10\/bankers-without-a-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankers Without a Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tell all my students, ‘During an exam, if you haven’t got a clue, multiply all the numbers together’.
\nNow it occurs to me that that is what those clueless bankers were doing before the Western economy entered the death spiral.
\nThey just multiplied all our money together and spent it on themselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tell all my students, ‘During an exam, if you haven’t got a clue, multiply all the numbers together’. Now it occurs to me that that is what those clueless bankers were doing before the Western economy entered the death … Continue reading →<\/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-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-cX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2010\/10\/another-competition-for-bankers\/","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":0},"title":"Another Competition for Bankers","author":"taxicle","date":"October 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Another opportunity for bankers to prove how unfull of crap they all are. I will give a prized of \u00a3100000000000000000000000000000000 to the first banker to find a number bigger than 10 but less than 1. Email your answers to clientsupport@fleet-tutors.co.uk","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2010\/10\/competition-for-bankers\/","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":1},"title":"Competition for Bankers","author":"taxicle","date":"October 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We in this country are just not grateful enough to all the bankers who stole, lost or burnt all our money. The press and TV give the impression they are all a bunch of crooks and spivs who can't add up or take away any numbers bigger than 10. To\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/09\/the-secret-thoughts-of-bankers\/","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":2},"title":"The Secret Thoughts of Bankers…","author":"taxicle","date":"September 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever wondered what bankers think about? They think about their bonuses the most. Their collective train of thought goes something like this: \u00a31m to share between ten of us... that's \u00a310m each...(see how they can perform long division perfectly suited to the bills they have to pay). Let's have a\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":445,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/france-blames-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":3},"title":"France Blames UK","author":"taxicle","date":"December 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In an attempt to avoid national disgrace and humiliation, France is pointing all over the world at anyone who owes anything to anyone else, and telling the credit reference agencies about to reduce France to the status of a Greece, 'look at them who can't afford to heat their home\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":589,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/06\/another-useless-mega-million-pound-monument\/","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":4},"title":"Another Useless Mega Million Pound Monument","author":"taxicle","date":"June 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Right in time for the Olympics, a cable car has opened across the Thames. I cant help thinking this is just so that city bankers have a scenic route to work - a publicly funded perk for the millionaire gamblers who have gambled and lost all our money in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"cable-car-o2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/06\/cable-car-o21.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/06\/cable-car-o21.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/06\/cable-car-o21.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/06\/cable-car-o21.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/06\/cable-car-o21.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/06\/cable-car-o21.jpg?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":592,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/07\/barclays-on-the-edge\/","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":5},"title":"Barclays on the Edge","author":"taxicle","date":"July 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I imagine that everyone is after Barclays now. Everyone with a mortgage or a loan has a case against them because they fixed the LIBOR rate. Must be several tens of millions of people, including me. They could be tied up in the courts for years, with customers closing accounts\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}