{"id":62208,"date":"2018-02-09T00:43:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62208"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:46:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:46:28","slug":"watch-hedge-fund-billionaire-leon-cooperman-count-the-ways-president-trump-is-like-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/watch-hedge-fund-billionaire-leon-cooperman-count-the-ways-president-trump-is-like-reagan.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch Hedge Fund Billionaire Leon Cooperman Count the Ways President Trump Is Like Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Wednesday that the best way to judge President Donald Trump is to compare him to Ronald Reagan.   &#8220;I kind of contrast Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan,&#8221; Cooperman, chairman and CEO of the Omega Advisors hedge fund, which has about $3.8 billion in assets under management, said on &#8220;Fast Money Halftime Report.&#8221; &#8220;When Ronald Reagan ran for president, he said, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to get the government off the backs of the people. And I&#8217;m going to do that by reducing regulation and reducing taxes.'&#8221;   &#8220;Ditto for President Trump,&#8221; Cooperman said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/02\/07\/watch-hedge-fund-titan-leon-cooperman-count-ways-trump-is-like-reagan.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Wednesday that the best way to judge President Donald Trump is to compare him to Ronald Reagan. &#8220;I kind of contrast Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan,&#8221; Cooperman, chairman and CEO of the [&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-62208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62208","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=62208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62209,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62208\/revisions\/62209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}