{"id":64639,"date":"2018-07-11T00:07:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64639"},"modified":"2018-07-10T23:17:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:17:06","slug":"germany-blames-the-locusts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2018\/germany-blames-the-locusts-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Germany Blames the Locusts Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Within hours of Heinrich Hiesinger stepping down as ThyssenKrupp AG chief executive last week amid pressure from activist investors, the talk turned to \u201clocusts,\u201d Germany\u2019s catch-all term for the evils of Anglo-Saxon capitalism. A \u201clocust-style\u201d breakup must be resisted, ThyssenKrupp\u2019s chief labor representative warned, no doubt in reference to Cevian Capital and Elliott Management Corp, who\u2019ve been pushing for change. Blaming hedge funds for the unraveling of a once-mighty industrial conglomerate feels misplaced though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-07-10\/hedge-fund-locusts-aren-t-the-cause-of-germany-s-ills\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Within hours of Heinrich Hiesinger stepping down as ThyssenKrupp AG chief executive last week amid pressure from activist investors, the talk turned to \u201clocusts,\u201d Germany\u2019s catch-all term for the evils of Anglo-Saxon capitalism. A \u201clocust-style\u201d breakup must be resisted, [&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-64639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639","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=64639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64640,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639\/revisions\/64640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}