{"id":40144,"date":"2014-01-20T06:59:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40144"},"modified":"2014-01-20T06:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T11:59:56","slug":"former-hedge-fund-trader-describes-wealth-addicts-on-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2014\/former-hedge-fund-trader-describes-wealth-addicts-on-wall-street.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Hedge Fund Trader Describes &#8220;Wealth Addicts&#8221; On Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gothamist &#8211; In an illuminating op-ed for the Times, a former hedge fund trader describes how he supplanted his drug and alcohol additions with an addiction to money. &#8220;I was a giant fireball of greed,&#8221; Sam Polk writes. &#8220;I\u2019d think about how my colleagues could buy Micronesia if they wanted to, or become mayor of New York City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Polk paints the picture of his Wall Street ascent and subsequent reckoning with a broad brush (there is a reference to The Wire) but makes a persuasive (if unoriginal) argument about money&#8217;s corrupting and ultimately unfulfilling promise:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2014\/01\/19\/former_hedge_fund_trader_describes.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gothamist &#8211; In an illuminating op-ed for the Times, a former hedge fund trader describes how he supplanted his drug and alcohol additions with an addiction to money. &#8220;I was a giant fireball of greed,&#8221; Sam Polk writes. &#8220;I\u2019d think [&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-40144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40144","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=40144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40145,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40144\/revisions\/40145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}