{"id":20250,"date":"2011-01-28T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20250"},"modified":"2011-01-28T07:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:15:22","slug":"hedge-funds-face-debt-crisis-sputnik-moment-commentary-by-william-pesek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/hedge-funds-face-debt-crisis-sputnik-moment-commentary-by-william-pesek.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Face Debt Crisis `Sputnik Moment&#8217;: Commentary by William Pesek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; This phrase recalling how the\u00a0Soviet Union\u2019s 1957 space launch shocked the U.S. is back in vogue thanks to President Barack Obama\u2019s State of the Union address this week. He sees the rise of India and\u00a0China as a catalyst for the U.S. to boost its competitive game, and it\u2019s hard to argue with that.<\/p>\n<p>If any economy needs such a jolt, it\u2019s Japan. News last year that China\u2019s gross domestic product surpassed Japan\u2019s, knocking it into the No. 3 spot, wasn\u2019t quite it. Yet what about relegating wealthy Japan to the same level of creditworthiness as China\u2019s still relatively poor population?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-01-27\/hedge-funds-get-s-p-s-invite-to-sputnik-moment-william-pesek.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; This phrase recalling how the\u00a0Soviet Union\u2019s 1957 space launch shocked the U.S. is back in vogue thanks to President Barack Obama\u2019s State of the Union address this week. He sees the rise of India and\u00a0China as a catalyst [&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-20250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250","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=20250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20251,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250\/revisions\/20251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}