{"id":36251,"date":"2013-06-19T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36251"},"modified":"2013-06-19T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:38:06","slug":"unintended-consequences-of-bernankes-fed-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2013\/unintended-consequences-of-bernankes-fed-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences Of Bernanke&#8217;s Fed Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; To taper or not to taper is the obvious short-term catalyst moving the market. Beneath the surface, however, a deeper issue is at play. Under Ben Bernanke&#8217;s leadership the Federal Reserve has evolved into the world&#8217;s largest, most activist hedge fund. No longer do we rely on the Fed to simply set interest rates, QE 1, 2, 3 and 4 changed that.<\/p>\n<p>This recent $85 billion monthly purchase plan of treasuries and mortgage backed securities has evolved the Fed from participating in markets as a rule setter\/referee into a primary participant. What&#8217;s wrong with the Fed becoming the world&#8217;s largest hedge fund? Where to begin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/1509332-unintended-consequences-of-bernanke-s-fed-hedge-fund?source=google_news\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; To taper or not to taper is the obvious short-term catalyst moving the market. Beneath the surface, however, a deeper issue is at play. Under Ben Bernanke&#8217;s leadership the Federal Reserve has evolved into the world&#8217;s largest, [&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-36251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36251","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=36251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36252,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36251\/revisions\/36252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}