{"id":12915,"date":"2009-11-10T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12915"},"modified":"2009-11-10T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T13:55:11","slug":"the-greatest-trade-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2009\/the-greatest-trade-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Trade Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NewsWeek &#8211; In a span of just three years, hedge-fund manager John Paulson went from practically unknown to practically unparalleled. After a series of smart bets against the housing market made Paulson&#8217;s hedge fund billions of dollars\u2014including days where it made more than $1 billion\u2014he earned a place alongside George Soros and Warren Buffett as an oracle of investing.<\/p>\n<p>In his new book, <em><em>The Greatest Trade Ever<\/em><\/em>, Gregory Zuckerman, a reporter at <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, examines how the unlikely team of Paulson and assistant Paolo Pellegrini\u2014as well as a few other investors\u2014bucked conventional wisdom and saw through the housing hype.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/221924\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsWeek &#8211; In a span of just three years, hedge-fund manager John Paulson went from practically unknown to practically unparalleled. After a series of smart bets against the housing market made Paulson&#8217;s hedge fund billions of dollars\u2014including days where it [&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":[],"class_list":["post-12915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915","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=12915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12916,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions\/12916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}