{"id":41379,"date":"2014-04-01T04:02:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41379"},"modified":"2014-04-01T06:04:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T10:04:39","slug":"hedge-funds-bets-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-steer-housing-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2014\/hedge-funds-bets-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-steer-housing-policy.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds&#8217; bets shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to steer housing policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STL &#8211;\u00a0Nature may abhor a vacuum, but Congress doesn\u2019t seem to mind going for years with a giant void where the nation\u2019s housing policy should be.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that in politics, as in nature, something always rushes to fill empty space. In the case of the bailed-out mortgage bundlers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a handful of hedge funds are playing the opportunists\u2019 role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/columns\/david-nicklaus\/hedge-funds-bets-shouldn-t-be-allowed-to-steer-housing\/article_05046af4-efd5-5fdb-b072-5ddd86e948c1.html\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STL &#8211;\u00a0Nature may abhor a vacuum, but Congress doesn\u2019t seem to mind going for years with a giant void where the nation\u2019s housing policy should be. The problem is that in politics, as in nature, something always rushes to fill [&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-41379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379","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=41379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41380,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379\/revisions\/41380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}