{"id":59730,"date":"2017-08-31T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59730"},"modified":"2017-08-31T09:09:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:09:34","slug":"how-one-small-wisconsin-town-is-making-some-hedge-funds-very-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/how-one-small-wisconsin-town-is-making-some-hedge-funds-very-nervous.html","title":{"rendered":"How One Small Wisconsin Town Is Making Some Hedge Funds Very Nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) After a century-old paper mill in Brokaw, Wisconsin, closed a few years ago, the town of 250 residents effectively went bankrupt. Brokaw will soon be dissolved by its two neighboring towns. But it has found a new way to live on: through a federal bill named for it that would restrict Wall Street&#8217;s activist hedge-funds, the type of investing firms that were blamed for the town&#8217;s demise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/08\/30\/small-wisconsin-town-making-hedge-funds-very-nervous.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) After a century-old paper mill in Brokaw, Wisconsin, closed a few years ago, the town of 250 residents effectively went bankrupt. Brokaw will soon be dissolved by its two neighboring towns. But it has found a new way to [&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-59730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730","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=59730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59731,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730\/revisions\/59731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}