{"id":19188,"date":"2010-12-02T08:04:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=19188"},"modified":"2010-12-02T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T12:07:53","slug":"hedge-funds-tapped-rescue-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2010\/hedge-funds-tapped-rescue-program.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Tapped Rescue Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Hedge funds and investors whose bearish trades on housing helped them profit amid the credit crisis were among those that benefited from a U.S. government emergency rescue program to kick-start lending, according to Federal Reserve data released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>That program, known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF, and established during the financial crisis, provided low-cost loans from the Federal Reserve to investors buying bonds backed by student, auto and commercial-property loans and other assets.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703865004575649233598560948.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Hedge funds and investors whose bearish trades on housing helped them profit amid the credit crisis were among those that benefited from a U.S. government emergency rescue program to kick-start lending, according to Federal Reserve data released Wednesday. [&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-19188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188","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=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19190,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions\/19190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}