{"id":61686,"date":"2018-01-08T01:27:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61686"},"modified":"2018-01-08T01:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T06:27:55","slug":"fannie-freddie-overhaul-might-mint-hedge-fund-riches-losses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/fannie-freddie-overhaul-might-mint-hedge-fund-riches-losses-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Fannie-Freddie Overhaul Might Mint Hedge Fund Riches, Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) They\u2019ve lost in court. They\u2019ve been rebuffed by government agencies. Now, the fates of hedge funds and other investors in mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could lie with an old adversary: the U.S. Congress.Whether shareholders make a killing or get wiped out might hinge on a yet-to-be written provision of a draft Senate bill that marks lawmakers\u2019 latest attempt to overhaul Fannie and Freddie, which have been wards of the state for almost a decade. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-04\/fannie-freddie-overhaul-might-mint-hedge-fund-riches-or-losses\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) They\u2019ve lost in court. They\u2019ve been rebuffed by government agencies. Now, the fates of hedge funds and other investors in mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could lie with an old adversary: the U.S. Congress.Whether shareholders make a [&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-61686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61686","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=61686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61687,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61686\/revisions\/61687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}