{"id":36341,"date":"2013-06-24T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36341"},"modified":"2013-06-24T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:21:44","slug":"montclair-author-les-leopold-on-how-hedge-funds-place-bets-on-a-rigged-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2013\/montclair-author-les-leopold-on-how-hedge-funds-place-bets-on-a-rigged-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Montclair author Les Leopold on how hedge funds place bets on a rigged game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Jersey &#8211; &#8220;I noticed that the leading hedge fund manager in 2010 earned as much in one hour as the average American family earns in 47 years,&#8221;\u00a0Montclair-based author Les Leopold told The Montclair Times.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to know if this was some weird phenomenon, or if hedge fund managers were just in a different class. He compared them to other high earners, and they were indeed in a league by themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;I noticed that the leading hedge fund manager in 2010 earned as much in one hour as the average American family earns in 47 years,&quot; Montclair-based author Les Leopold told The Montclair Times.  He wanted to know if this was some weird phenomenon, or if hedge fund managers were just in a different class. He compared them to other high earners, and they were indeed in a league by themselves.  - See more at: http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/news\/212534661_Montclair_author_Les_Leopold_on_how_hedge_funds_place_bets_on_a_rigged_game.html#sthash.n1tIzP5l.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Jersey &#8211; &#8220;I noticed that the leading hedge fund manager in 2010 earned as much in one hour as the average American family earns in 47 years,&#8221;\u00a0Montclair-based author Les Leopold told The Montclair Times. He wanted to know if [&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-36341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36341","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=36341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36342,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36341\/revisions\/36342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}