{"id":16299,"date":"2010-06-18T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16299"},"modified":"2010-06-18T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:05:07","slug":"let-the-hedge-funds-run-the-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/let-the-hedge-funds-run-the-risks.html","title":{"rendered":"Let the hedge funds run the risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thw Washington Post &#8211; Beginning in the late 1980s, traditional banks began complaining that  they were losing market share and profits and all their best people to  investment banks, which had cleverly constructed an alternative, or  &#8220;shadow,&#8221; banking system that was less regulated and backed by less  capital. Their incessant whining and well-financed pleading eventually  paid off in the late 1990s, when Congress dismantled the Depression-era  wall between the two activities and let banks and investment banks  merge. And it all worked splendidly &#8212; until, of course, it didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/17\/AR2010061705861.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thw Washington Post &#8211; Beginning in the late 1980s, traditional banks began complaining that they were losing market share and profits and all their best people to investment banks, which had cleverly constructed an alternative, or &#8220;shadow,&#8221; banking system that [&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-16299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16299","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=16299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16301,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16299\/revisions\/16301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}