{"id":40495,"date":"2014-02-07T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40495"},"modified":"2014-02-07T08:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:13:18","slug":"why-is-ralph-nader-cozying-up-to-a-bunch-of-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2014\/why-is-ralph-nader-cozying-up-to-a-bunch-of-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ralph Nader cozying up to a bunch of hedge funds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; It&#8217;s not often in Washington that you see wealthy, conservative investor types and their lawyers sitting down with professional affordable housing advocates. But on Wednesday morning, anti-corporate crusader Ralph Nader \u2014\u00a0now stooped and gray, nearing his 80th birthday \u2014\u00a0brought them together.<\/p>\n<p>Their cause? Saving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from obliteration.\u00a0It&#8217;s a herculean effort. Democrats and Republicans don&#8217;t agree on much these days, but a broad consensus \u2014\u00a0from Rep.\u00a0Jeb Hensarling\u00a0to\u00a0the White House\u00a0\u2014 has coalesced around the conclusion that the now-hated housing finance agencies need to be junked, and something else built in their place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/02\/06\/why-is-ralph-nader-cozying-up-to-a-bunch-of-hedge-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; It&#8217;s not often in Washington that you see wealthy, conservative investor types and their lawyers sitting down with professional affordable housing advocates. But on Wednesday morning, anti-corporate crusader Ralph Nader \u2014\u00a0now stooped and gray, nearing his 80th [&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-40495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40495","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=40495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40496,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40495\/revisions\/40496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}