{"id":11095,"date":"2009-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"i-would-shut-down-the-hedge-fund-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/i-would-shut-down-the-hedge-fund-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8221;I would shut down the hedge fund industry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon &#8211; John R. Talbott is a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs and the author of &quot;The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street,&quot; &quot;Contagion,&quot; &quot;Obamanomics,&quot; and &quot;The Coming Crash in the Housing Market.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is the co-founder of the Baseline Scenario, a Web site tracking the ongoing financial crisis. He is one of the most visible public commentators on the ongoing financial crisis and its causes.<\/p>\n<p>From June to July of 2009, Talbott and Johnson held an e-mail conversation on the following topic:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2009\/07\/23\/economic_crisis_part_two\/index.html?FORM=ZZNR4\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon &#8211; John R. Talbott is a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs and the author of &quot;The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street,&quot; &quot;Contagion,&quot; &quot;Obamanomics,&quot; and &quot;The Coming Crash in the Housing Market.&quot; Simon Johnson, the former chief economist [&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":[14491,2852,4565,14493,1844,6125,11140,4726,398,197,7172,7203,2250,14490,14492,4464],"class_list":["post-11095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-baseline-scenario","tag-chief-economist","tag-co-founder","tag-commentators","tag-contagion","tag-crash","tag-e-mail","tag-financial-crisis","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-housing-market","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-international-monetary-fund-imf","tag-investment-banker","tag-john-r-talbott","tag-simon-johnson","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095","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=11095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}