{"id":10549,"date":"2009-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"battered-hedge-fund-managers-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/battered-hedge-fund-managers-syndrome.html","title":{"rendered":"Battered Hedge Fund Managers&#8217; Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>Family Security Matters &#8211; Greed is good &#8212; until it gets in the way of a union-friendly restructuring deal. President Obama, generous recipient of Wall Street largesse, angrily derided a group of hedge fund managers this week as &quot;speculators.&quot; The miffed president suggested that uncooperative firms were selfish for holding out on the government&#8217;s Chrysler bankruptcy plans and refusing to make &quot;sacrifices&quot; to benefit the United Auto Workers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The &quot;sacrifices&quot; involved Chrysler debt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familysecuritymatters.org\/publications\/id.3193\/pub_detail.asp#\" class=\"kLink\" target=\"undefined\"><\/a>holders agreeing to sell the debt to the government at prices determined by union-beholden bureaucrats instead of bankruptcy courts. The hedge firms balked. Obama sneered that the dissenters were looking for an &quot;unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout.&quot; <\/span><\/div>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.familysecuritymatters.org\/publications\/id.3193\/pub_detail.asp\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Security Matters &#8211; Greed is good &#8212; until it gets in the way of a union-friendly restructuring deal. President Obama, generous recipient of Wall Street largesse, angrily derided a group of hedge fund managers this week as &quot;speculators.&quot; The [&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-10549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10549","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=10549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}