{"id":20120,"date":"2011-01-24T08:51:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20120"},"modified":"2011-01-24T08:51:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:51:05","slug":"big-short-eisman-vies-with-goldman-in-faceoff-over-for-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/big-short-eisman-vies-with-goldman-in-faceoff-over-for-profits.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Short Eisman Vies With Goldman in Faceoff Over For-Profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; U.S. higher-education stocks fell 48 percent from April to October last year as the federal government proposed tighter regulation and short sellers led by hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman targeted for-profit colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Eisman, whose early bet against the housing market was chronicled in Michael Lewis\u2019s 2010 book \u201cThe Big Short,\u201d lobbied Department of Education officials and Senate staffers, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. He publicly called for-profit schools \u201cas socially destructive as the subprime-mortgage industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-01-24\/big-short-eisman-vies-with-goldman-in-faceoff-over-for-profits.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; U.S. higher-education stocks fell 48 percent from April to October last year as the federal government proposed tighter regulation and short sellers led by hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman targeted for-profit colleges. Eisman, whose early bet against the housing [&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-20120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120","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=20120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20121,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions\/20121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}