{"id":42059,"date":"2014-05-12T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T13:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42059"},"modified":"2014-05-12T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T13:14:40","slug":"hedge-fund-titans-are-testing-the-quality-of-us-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/hedge-fund-titans-are-testing-the-quality-of-us-democracy.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund titans are testing the quality of US democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FT &#8211; John Paulson made his fortune by taking a massive short position against the US housing bubble. Today the hedge fund billionaire is betting that the US political system will fail. This time he has company.<\/p>\n<p>Other billionaires have launched a lawsuit to force the US Treasury to pay shareholders vast sums from the government-sponsored housing enterprises that it bailed out in 2008. Betting on Washington\u2019s largesse has become a routine investment strategy. Whether this one works, aspiring billionaires should take note: if you want to strike it lucky, try shorting American democracy. The risk is small and the rewards are spectacular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/7a51a4fc-d6ae-11e3-b251-00144feabdc0.html#axzz31VP80VNk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT &#8211; John Paulson made his fortune by taking a massive short position against the US housing bubble. Today the hedge fund billionaire is betting that the US political system will fail. This time he has company. Other billionaires have [&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-42059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42059","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=42059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42061,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42059\/revisions\/42061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}