{"id":22735,"date":"2011-05-27T06:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22735"},"modified":"2011-05-27T06:28:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:28:45","slug":"fire-your-hedge-fund-hire-your-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/fire-your-hedge-fund-hire-your-congressman.html","title":{"rendered":"Fire Your Hedge Fund, Hire Your Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barron&#8217;s &#8211; The Holy Grail of investing has been found: get elected to the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n<p>According to an academic study published Wednesday in the journal &#8220;Business and Politics,&#8221; members of the House of Representatives outperform the average stock-market investor by 55 basis points a month, or 0.55 percentage points, according to the Washington Times, which brought it to my attention. Extrapolated over a full year, that figures to an extra 6.8% per annum after compounding &#8212; better than hedge-fund superstars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB50001424053111904433604576346981994360302.html?mod=BOL_hpp_highlight_bottom\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barron&#8217;s &#8211; The Holy Grail of investing has been found: get elected to the U.S. Congress. According to an academic study published Wednesday in the journal &#8220;Business and Politics,&#8221; members of the House of Representatives outperform the average stock-market investor [&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-22735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22735","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=22735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22737,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22735\/revisions\/22737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}