{"id":33117,"date":"2012-12-20T00:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T05:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33117"},"modified":"2012-12-19T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T04:00:34","slug":"hedge-fund-manager-ackman-shorting-herbalife-calls-company-a-pyramid-scheme-cnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2012\/hedge-fund-manager-ackman-shorting-herbalife-calls-company-a-pyramid-scheme-cnbc.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Manager Ackman Shorting Herbalife, Calls Company a &#8216;Pyramid Scheme&#8217; &#8211; CNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management LP has had a short position on Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) for seven or eight months, CNBC&#8217;s Kate Kelly reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ackman considers the company &#8220;a pyramid scheme, I&#8217;m told,&#8221; Ms. Kelly said. She said Mr. Ackman will discuss the short position at an investment gathering Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20121219-711257.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management LP has had a short position on Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) for seven or eight months, CNBC&#8217;s Kate Kelly reported Wednesday. Mr. Ackman considers the company &#8220;a pyramid scheme, I&#8217;m told,&#8221; Ms. [&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-33117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33117","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=33117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33122,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33117\/revisions\/33122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}