{"id":23785,"date":"2011-07-29T06:45:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23785"},"modified":"2011-07-29T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T10:45:13","slug":"grassley-questions-education-agency%e2%80%99s-ties-to-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/grassley-questions-education-agency%e2%80%99s-ties-to-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Grassley Questions Education Agency\u2019s Ties to Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DealBook &#8211; Senator\u00a0Charles E. Grassley is examining whether\u00a0Education Department officials disclosed confidential government information to hedge fund managers, including the well-known stock picker Steve Eisman.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry stems from the agency\u2019s recent efforts to overhaul the\u00a0for-profit college industry, which has been accused of saddling students with huge piles of debt. Expecting tough new rules in the wake of the controversy, Mr. Eisman and other hedge fund traders placed huge bets against the industry.\u00a0In a letter this week, Mr. Grassley questioned the education secretary,\u00a0Arne Duncan, about the agency\u2019s ties to the hedge fund world and the lack of policies restricting contact with Wall Street players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/28\/grassley-questions-education-agencys-ties-to-wall-street\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DealBook &#8211; Senator\u00a0Charles E. Grassley is examining whether\u00a0Education Department officials disclosed confidential government information to hedge fund managers, including the well-known stock picker Steve Eisman. The inquiry stems from the agency\u2019s recent efforts to overhaul the\u00a0for-profit college industry, which has [&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-23785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785","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=23785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23786,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785\/revisions\/23786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}