{"id":21931,"date":"2011-04-18T07:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T11:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21931"},"modified":"2011-04-18T07:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T11:29:36","slug":"analysts-hedge-their-bets-on-a-gold-plated-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2011\/analysts-hedge-their-bets-on-a-gold-plated-economy.html","title":{"rendered":"Analysts hedge their bets on a gold-plated economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Herald &#8211; John Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund manager, whose bet against the overheated US housing market made him one of the world\u2019s wealthiest and most controversial hedge fund managers \u2013 is playing the gold market in a big way amid predictions the price of the yellow metal could leap as high as $1600 an ounce before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>He earned an estimated $5 billion (\u00a33.06bn) in 2010, much of which was made by investing in bullion, and hopes to do better this year as the price of gold soars.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/business\/markets-economy\/analysts-hedge-their-bets-on-a-gold-plated-economy-1.1096803\" target=\"_blank\">Read Compete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Herald &#8211; John Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund manager, whose bet against the overheated US housing market made him one of the world\u2019s wealthiest and most controversial hedge fund managers \u2013 is playing the gold market in a [&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-21931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931","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=21931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21932,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions\/21932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}