{"id":23704,"date":"2011-07-26T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23704"},"modified":"2011-07-26T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:16:53","slug":"in-cantor-hedge-funds-and-private-equity-firms-have-voice-at-debt-ceiling-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/in-cantor-hedge-funds-and-private-equity-firms-have-voice-at-debt-ceiling-negotiations.html","title":{"rendered":"In Cantor, hedge funds and private equity firms have voice at debt ceiling negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; As the debt-ceiling talks\u00a0tick down to the Aug. 2 deadline, leading the opposition to any deal that includes higher taxes is the new tribune of rank-and-file House Republicans: Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Cantor\u2019s pivotal role marks a rapid rise for the 48-year-old from the Richmond suburbs. It also represents a major coup for sectors of the investment community that Cantor has been striving to assist for years \u2014 on the same tax issues that have been at stake this month. And so far, he has prevailed on those issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/in-cantor-hedge-funds-and-private-equity-firms-have-voice-at-debt-ceiling-negotiations\/2011\/07\/22\/gIQAZYNVYI_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; As the debt-ceiling talks\u00a0tick down to the Aug. 2 deadline, leading the opposition to any deal that includes higher taxes is the new tribune of rank-and-file House Republicans: Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia. Cantor\u2019s pivotal role [&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-23704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704","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=23704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23705,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704\/revisions\/23705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}