{"id":11370,"date":"2009-08-26T04:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2009-08-26T05:52:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T13:52:33","slug":"hedge-fund-boss-accuses-pm-of-ignoring-crunch-alarm-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2009\/hedge-fund-boss-accuses-pm-of-ignoring-crunch-alarm-bell.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund boss accuses PM of ignoring crunch alarm bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evening Standard &#8211; Jim Chanos said that Mr Brown, while Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a briefing that predicted banks were in dire danger &#8211; more than a year before the crisis hit last year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chanos, who made his name correctly predicting the downfall of <span class=\"inform\">Enron<\/span>, said that Mr Brown and other G7 finance ministers were told of the &#8220;canary in the coal mine&#8221; but chose to carry on regardless.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"..\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/standard\/article-23736927-details\/Hedge+fund+boss+accuses+PM+of+ignoring+crunch+alarm+bell\/article.do?FORM=ZZNR2\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\"><!--Session data--><\/input><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evening Standard &#8211; Jim Chanos said that Mr Brown, while Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a briefing that predicted banks were in dire danger &#8211; more than a year before the crisis hit last year. Mr Chanos, who made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4306,9835,404,4711,15689,11148,15688],"class_list":["post-11370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-banks","tag-chancellor-of-the-exchequer","tag-downfall","tag-enron","tag-g7-finance-ministers","tag-hedge-fund","tag-jim-chanos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11394,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions\/11394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}