{"id":41338,"date":"2014-03-28T07:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41338"},"modified":"2014-03-28T07:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:57:34","slug":"ben-bernanke-dines-with-hedge-fund-billionaires-in-new-york-as-he-rakes-in-the-big-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/ben-bernanke-dines-with-hedge-fund-billionaires-in-new-york-as-he-rakes-in-the-big-bucks.html","title":{"rendered":"Ben Bernanke Dines With Hedge Fund Billionaires In New York As He Rakes In The Big Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; A couple of months after stepping down from the job in which he is credited with averting a global financial crisis that could\u2019ve eclipsed the Great Depression,\u00a0Ben Bernanke\u00a0appears to be enjoying his time alongside billionaires and financiers.\u00a0 The former Fed Chairman was spotted having dinner with several hedge fund billionaires including\u00a0David Einhorn,\u00a0Louis Bacon, and\u00a0Larry Robbins\u00a0at a New York hot spot on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bernanke\u2019s new gig as a public speaker is definitely more profitable than being the most important person in the global financial system: earlier this month, he was paid $250,000 for a 40-minute chat in Abu Dhabi, which is more than his 2013 annual salary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/afontevecchia\/2014\/03\/27\/bernanke-dines-with-hedge-fund-billionaires-as-he-rakes-in-the-big-bucks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; A couple of months after stepping down from the job in which he is credited with averting a global financial crisis that could\u2019ve eclipsed the Great Depression,\u00a0Ben Bernanke\u00a0appears to be enjoying his time alongside billionaires and financiers.\u00a0 The [&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-41338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41338","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=41338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41339,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41338\/revisions\/41339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}