{"id":16443,"date":"2010-06-29T07:13:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16443"},"modified":"2010-06-29T07:13:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:13:04","slug":"book-review-hedge-hogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/book-review-hedge-hogs.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Hedge Hogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; This is not an obvious time to be glorifying financial tycoons.  Making enough money to buy your own private island might have earned you  an airbrushed magazine cover a decade ago. Nowadays, though, the  erstwhile Masters of the Universe are viewed with such opprobrium that  one of their favorite lawyers told me recently he was advising his  clients to soft-pedal their objections to financial reform legislation  because the more Wall Street hates it, the better it plays on Main  Street.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s populist mood has not deterred Sebastian Mallaby. In \u201cMore  Money Than God,\u201d his smart history of the hedge fund business, Mallaby  does more than explain how finance\u2019s richest moguls made their loot. He  argues that the obsessive, charismatic oddballs of the hedge fund world  are Wall Street\u2019s future \u2014 and possibly its salvation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/28\/book-review-hedge-hogs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; This is not an obvious time to be glorifying financial tycoons. Making enough money to buy your own private island might have earned you an airbrushed magazine cover a decade ago. Nowadays, though, the erstwhile Masters [&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-16443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443","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=16443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16444,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions\/16444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}