{"id":58086,"date":"2017-05-18T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T12:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58086"},"modified":"2017-05-18T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T12:29:20","slug":"ex-fed-chairman-bernanke-puzzled-by-market-indifference-to-political-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2017\/ex-fed-chairman-bernanke-puzzled-by-market-indifference-to-political-risk.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Fed Chairman Bernanke &#8216;Puzzled&#8217; by Market Indifference to Political Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday that he is &#8220;puzzled&#8221; by how little markets have reacted to major political risks, and skeptical about the Trump administration&#8217;s ability to fulfill its pledges to stoke faster growth.&#8221;It puzzles me that markets are very blas\u00e9 about political risk until the last minute,&#8221; Bernanke said during a discussion on stage at SALT, a financial industry conference in Las Vegas affiliated with Skybridge Capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-salt-bernanke-idUSKCN18D2G9\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday that he is &#8220;puzzled&#8221; by how little markets have reacted to major political risks, and skeptical about the Trump administration&#8217;s ability to fulfill its pledges to stoke faster growth.&#8221;It puzzles [&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-58086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58086","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=58086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58087,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58086\/revisions\/58087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}