{"id":10551,"date":"2009-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"man-utilizes-collection-as-economic-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/man-utilizes-collection-as-economic-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Man utilizes collection as economic &#8216;hedge fund&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; While many lose sleep over each twist and turn of today&#8217;s economy, New Jersey collector Ralph DeLuca has found a hedge against the recession in the musty memorabilia of Hollywood&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p>A former private investment consultant, DeLuca hardly batted an eye when he bought a vintage poster from the 1932 cult movie &quot;Freaks&quot; at auction in March for more than $100,000. The poster had cost $10 in the early 1970s.A few minutes later he outbid competitors for a rare poster of the original &quot;Dracula&quot; from 1931, owned by actor Nicolas Cage, snapping it up for more than $300,000.<\/p>\n<p>  <a title=\"Read Complete Article\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/article\/20090511\/NEWS03\/905110307\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; While many lose sleep over each twist and turn of today&#8217;s economy, New Jersey collector Ralph DeLuca has found a hedge against the recession in the musty memorabilia of Hollywood&#8217;s past. A former private investment consultant, DeLuca [&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":[5088,11454,11324,11455,11457,11461,4602,11463,11462,7012,7075,11464,11460,5400,11456,536,6302,11459,11458],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1970s","tag-actor-nicolas-cage","tag-auction","tag-cult-movie","tag-deluca","tag-dracula","tag-economy","tag-few-minutes","tag-freaks","tag-hollywood","tag-investment-consultant","tag-memorabilia","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-private-investment","tag-rare-poster","tag-recession","tag-sleep","tag-twist-and-turn","tag-vintage-poster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","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=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}