{"id":52015,"date":"2016-03-30T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52015"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:16:58","slug":"how-one-hedge-fund-made-2-billion-from-argentinas-economic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/how-one-hedge-fund-made-2-billion-from-argentinas-economic-collapse.html","title":{"rendered":"How One Hedge Fund Made $2 Billion from Argentina\u2019s Economic Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Washington Post) When Paul Singer\u2019s Elliott Capital launched a 15-year battle to wrestle billions out of Argentina for lapsed debt payments, it wasn\u2019t the first time the hedge fund had taken on a foreign government.But few engagements have turned into such a high-profile international scuffle.<\/p>\n<p>In order to collect the decade-old debt, Singer\u2019s fund tried to claim money deposited by the country\u2019s central bank in the U.S. and Europe. And it sought to seize two satellite launch contracts between Argentina and SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/business\/wp\/2016\/03\/29\/how-one-hedge-fund-made-2-billion-from-argentinas-economic-collapse\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Washington Post) When Paul Singer\u2019s Elliott Capital launched a 15-year battle to wrestle billions out of Argentina for lapsed debt payments, it wasn\u2019t the first time the hedge fund had taken on a foreign government.But few engagements have turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52016,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015\/revisions\/52016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}