{"id":4118,"date":"2006-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"former-german-chancellor-schroder-sings-the-praises-of-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2006\/former-german-chancellor-schroder-sings-the-praises-of-hedge.html","title":{"rendered":"Former German Chancellor Schr\u00c3\u00b6der sings the praises of hedge &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  A year ago, when the then-chairman of Germany\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Social Democratic Party (SPD), Franz M\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcntefering, denounced hedge funds as \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201clocusts,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d one commentator noted: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cM\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcntefering insults the locusts,  Schr\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b6der is feeding them.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d He was referring to the fact that Gerhard Schr\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b6der\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s coalition government had created legal conditions allowing hedge funds to operate in Germany in an unrestrained  manner. In the meantime, it is clear that Schr\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b6der is no longer feeding the locusts\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dinstead they are feeding him.<\/p>\n<p>  Last Thursday (March 9), in Vienna, the former German chancellor gave the principal speech celebrating the 10th anniversary of Superfund, one of the hedge funds that M\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcntefering had in mind when he  made his reference to locusts.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/wsws.org\/articles\/2006\/mar2006\/schr-m14.shtml\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, when the then-chairman of Germany\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Social Democratic Party (SPD), Franz M\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcntefering, denounced hedge funds as \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201clocusts,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d one commentator noted: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cM\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcntefering insults the locusts, Schr\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b6der is feeding them.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d He was referring to the fact that Gerhard Schr\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b6der\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s coalition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}