{"id":10279,"date":"2009-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"uncle-sams-hedge-fund-is-risk-for-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/uncle-sams-hedge-fund-is-risk-for-economic-recovery.html","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Sam?s hedge fund is risk for economic recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth Business Press &#8211; The rescue of the American financial system proposed by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is, in all but name, a gigantic hedge fund. The government would lend vast sums to private investors to enable them to buy loss-ridden assets at discounts from banks with the prospect of making sizable profits. If that&#8217;s not a hedge fund, what would be? The hope is that the $14 trillion U.S. banking system would expand lending if it could get rid of many of the lousy securities and loans already on its books.<\/p>\n<p>  Almost everyone thinks a healthier banking system is necessary for a sustained economic recovery. Can the Geithner plan work? <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.fwbusinesspress.com\/display.php?id=9908\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth Business Press &#8211; The rescue of the American financial system proposed by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is, in all but name, a gigantic hedge fund. The government would lend vast sums to private investors to enable them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4439,6985,4306,4749,5118,131,7289,9891,1750,7332,2341,236],"class_list":["post-10279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-assets","tag-banking-system","tag-banks","tag-business-press","tag-economic-recovery","tag-loans","tag-private-investors","tag-sizable-profits","tag-sums","tag-timothy-geithner","tag-treasury-secretary","tag-trillion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}