{"id":12651,"date":"2009-10-26T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12651"},"modified":"2009-10-26T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:13:54","slug":"hedge-fund-guru-george-soros-claims-bonus-anger-is-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/hedge-fund-guru-george-soros-claims-bonus-anger-is-justified.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund guru George Soros claims bonus anger is justified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"contentText\">City AM &#8211; Billionaire investor George Soros at the weekend became the latest high-profile financier to wade into the bonus debate as he claimed the backlash against banking fat cats on lucrative pay deals is justified.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview about large profits reported in recent weeks by Wall Street\u2019s biggest banks, Soros said: \u201cThose earnings are not the achievement of risk-takers. These are gifts, hidden gifts from the government, so I don\u2019t think that those monies should be used to pay bonuses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"contentText\"><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/news-and-analysis\/qzp2vdhqgz.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City AM &#8211; Billionaire investor George Soros at the weekend became the latest high-profile financier to wade into the bonus debate as he claimed the backlash against banking fat cats on lucrative pay deals is justified. Speaking in an interview [&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":[4817,11148,4650,123],"class_list":["post-12651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-financier","tag-hedge-fund","tag-investor","tag-profits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651","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=12651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12653,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions\/12653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}