{"id":56771,"date":"2017-02-24T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56771"},"modified":"2017-02-24T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:00:28","slug":"renaissance-partner-airs-battle-with-mercer-over-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/renaissance-partner-airs-battle-with-mercer-over-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance Partner Airs Battle With Mercer Over Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) A Renaissance Technologies partner went public with his strong objections to top executive Robert Mercer\u2019s support for President Donald Trump, telling the Wall Street Journal of a heated confrontation between the two men that may lead to his firing.<\/p>\n<p>David Magerman has worked at the quantitative hedge fund for 20 years and helped design the firm\u2019s trading systems. A registered Democrat, Magerman, 48, told the paper that Mercer\u2019s \u201cviews show contempt for the social safety net that he doesn\u2019t need, but many Americans do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-02-23\/renaissance-partner-airs-battle-with-mercer-over-trump-wsj-says\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A Renaissance Technologies partner went public with his strong objections to top executive Robert Mercer\u2019s support for President Donald Trump, telling the Wall Street Journal of a heated confrontation between the two men that may lead to his firing. [&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-56771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771","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=56771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56772,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771\/revisions\/56772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}