{"id":43306,"date":"2014-07-30T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43306"},"modified":"2014-07-30T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:36:14","slug":"hedge-fund-turns-a-nervous-eye-toward-mega-sun-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2014\/hedge-fund-turns-a-nervous-eye-toward-mega-sun-storm.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Turns a Nervous Eye Toward Mega Sun Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; First came the warning from scientists. Now a major hedge fund is reiterating the alert: A massive electromagnetic pulse could wipe out electric grids and cause \u201cunimaginable consequences\u201d for the global economy\u2014and it\u2019s time to start preparing.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago the earth narrowly avoided a major plasma eruption from the sun in an event called a coronal mass ejection. NASA\u2019s report on the near catastrophe, released last week, described the July 2012 solar emission as the largest event in at least 150 years, rivaling the 1859 \u201cCarrington Event\u201d solar storm that struck earth and disabled the then-new telegraph system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-07-29\/new-warning-about-mega-solar-storms-this-time-from-hedge-fund\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; First came the warning from scientists. Now a major hedge fund is reiterating the alert: A massive electromagnetic pulse could wipe out electric grids and cause \u201cunimaginable consequences\u201d for the global economy\u2014and it\u2019s time to start preparing. Two [&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-43306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43306","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=43306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43307,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43306\/revisions\/43307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}