{"id":10541,"date":"2009-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funder-cliff-asness-is-not-afraid-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/hedge-funder-cliff-asness-is-not-afraid-of-barack-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Funder Cliff Asness Is Not Afraid of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nymag.com &#8211; As monied housewives have seized upon the confessional essay as a means of expressing their feelings about the Greatest Depression, finance professionals have taken it upon themselves to resurrect a genre of letters that had, in the good times, languished: the &quot;Fuck You&quot; letter. <\/p>\n<p>Hedge-funder Andrew Lahde set the bar high with his fiery resignation note at the start of the crisis back in October, then was ably one-upped by AIG financial-products head Jake DeSantis, who quit in the middle of a furor by penning a poison-pen letter to CEO Edward Liddy which he then had printed in the pages of the <em>Times<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Now Clifford Asness, the filthy-stinking-rich quant behind AQR Capital Management, has one-upped them all by addressing his complaints directly to the president of the United States.<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2009\/05\/hedge_funder_cliff_asness_is_n.html\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2009\/05\/hedge_funder_cliff_asness_is_n.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nymag.com &#8211; As monied housewives have seized upon the confessional essay as a means of expressing their feelings about the Greatest Depression, finance professionals have taken it upon themselves to resurrect a genre of letters that had, in the good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","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=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}