{"id":26114,"date":"2011-11-21T02:54:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26114"},"modified":"2011-11-21T02:54:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:54:56","slug":"hedge-funds-try-to-buy-harvard-junior-phi-beta-kappas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2011\/hedge-funds-try-to-buy-harvard-junior-phi-beta-kappas.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Try To Buy Harvard Junior Phi Beta Kappas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Just two days after\u00a0 the 20 brainy Harvard students were named Junior Phi Beta Kappas, the highest academic honor they can achieve\u2013 and a year before they are to graduate\u2013\u00a0 the biggest hedge funds in\u00a0Boston\u00a0wrote them all letters trying to\u00a0 hire them.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the ravenous hunger of the funds that dominate the stock market to solicit the brainiest kids before they can go onto become microbiologists, professors of medicine, musicians Rhodes Scholars,\u00a0 or\u00a0 neuro-scientists. In a way it is a sign of\u00a0 Big Money acting as\u00a0 if it\u00a0 is the\u00a0 survival of the fittest\u00a0 will win the competition\u00a0\u00a0 to be in the top 1%. I have never\u00a0 witnessed the finding that the smartest become the richest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertlenzner\/2011\/11\/18\/hedge-funds-try-to-buy-harvard-junior-phi-beta-kappas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Just two days after\u00a0 the 20 brainy Harvard students were named Junior Phi Beta Kappas, the highest academic honor they can achieve\u2013 and a year before they are to graduate\u2013\u00a0 the biggest hedge funds in\u00a0Boston\u00a0wrote them all letters [&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-26114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114","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=26114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26115,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114\/revisions\/26115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}