{"id":16006,"date":"2026-04-14T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16006"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:00:28","slug":"former-carter-and-clinton-official-roger-altman-on-the-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16006","title":{"rendered":"Former Carter and Clinton official Roger Altman on the blockade."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On CNBC where <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_Altman\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_Altman\">Altman<\/a> is a a frequent guest. He had key roles in the Treasury Department for Carter and Clinton. He&#8217;s chairman of<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evercore\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evercore\"> Evercore<\/a>, an investment bank and he just turned 80, Altman had a heart transplant 24 years ago. I like him; very sensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Could take months for U.S. blockade of Iran&#039;s ports to work, says Evercore&#039;s Altman\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fz0dWYXOOq0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On CNBC where Altman is a a frequent guest. He had key roles in the Treasury Department for Carter and Clinton. He&#8217;s chairman of Evercore, an investment bank and he just turned 80, Altman had a heart transplant 24 years ago. I like him; very sensible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consistent-ethic-of-life","category-international-stuff","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16007,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions\/16007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}