{"id":16978,"date":"2010-07-30T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T10:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16978"},"modified":"2010-07-30T06:42:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T10:42:19","slug":"forget-jesus-and-ask-the-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/forget-jesus-and-ask-the-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Forget Jesus and ask the hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; The US stimulus debate features two warring camps. The Obama administration insists that a failure to stimulate will open  the door to a double-dip recession. Its foes retort that continued  stimulus could scare investors into dumping US Treasuries. Team Obama  invokes the recent run of poor economic data, which point to a risk of  renewed slowdown. The critics recall that the Treasury market dipped  unnervingly last year, and that foreign central banks were rumoured to  be tired of funding US deficits.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with finely balanced  dilemmas, some Americans are wont to ask: \u201cWhat would Jesus do?\u201d In this  case a variant may help: \u201cWhat would hedge funds do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/e0faa7e4-9b52-11df-baaf-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; The US stimulus debate features two warring camps. The Obama administration insists that a failure to stimulate will open the door to a double-dip recession. Its foes retort that continued stimulus could scare investors into dumping US [&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-16978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978","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=16978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16979,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions\/16979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}