{"id":14604,"date":"2010-03-17T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14604"},"modified":"2010-03-17T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:10:26","slug":"hedge-funds-as-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2010\/hedge-funds-as-heroes.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds as heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#8211; In the autumn of 2008, during the worst global banking crisis since  the 1930s, I was interviewed by French television and asked to explain  the malevolent role of hedge funds in causing the mess we were in.<\/p>\n<p>When I said that hedge funds were really not at the heart of the  matter, the interviewer was shocked and disappointed. She was in London  on a mission to tell the truth to her viewers about the malignancy of  hedge funds, and her script did not allow for a different version of  events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/robertpeston\/2010\/03\/hedge_funds_as_heroes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#8211; In the autumn of 2008, during the worst global banking crisis since the 1930s, I was interviewed by French television and asked to explain the malevolent role of hedge funds in causing the mess we were in. When [&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-14604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604","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=14604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14605,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions\/14605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}