{"id":6504,"date":"2007-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"humor-hedge-fund-managers-march-on-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2007\/humor-hedge-fund-managers-march-on-dc.html","title":{"rendered":"Humor: Hedge-Fund Managers March on DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Newsweek- Demanding further intervention from the Federal Reserve to protect their endangered fortunes, thousands of the nation\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s leading hedge-fund managers marched on Washington today.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">  Dubbed \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe Million Mercedes March,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d the protest was said to be the largest chauffeur-driven demonstration in the capital\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">  Limousines started jamming the streets of Washington at approximately 10 a.m., as irate hedge-fund owners converged in front of the Federal Reserve building to demand stronger action to protect  their imperiled riches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">  Chanting \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cNo rate cut, no peace!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d the furious money managers were pepper-sprayed by police as their protest threatened to take a violent turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">  Tracy Klujian, a hedge-fund manager from Greenwich, Conn., said that simmering anger in the hedge-fund community was \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201ca powder keg\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d waiting to explode. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWe have yet to see the ripple effects of  this crisis,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Klujian said. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWhen these guys have to freeze their trophy wives\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 shopping allowances, there\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s going to be hell to pay.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/3-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20591430\/site\/newsweek\/&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=3lbeRpzaHo_sqgPHjPjVBw\"><strong>Read Complete  Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek- Demanding further intervention from the Federal Reserve to protect their endangered fortunes, thousands of the nation\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s leading hedge-fund managers marched on Washington today.&#8217; Dubbed \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe Million Mercedes March,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d the protest was said to be the largest chauffeur-driven demonstration in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}