{"id":7497,"date":"2008-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mccain-speaks-at-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/mccain-speaks-at-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain speaks at hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwich Time- The Straight Talk Express stopped in town yesterday, with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaking at a town hall-style event hosted by hedge fund founder and Greenwich resident Ray Dalio. <\/p>\n<p>Before branching out into topics, including foreign oil, global warming and General David Petraeus&#8217; recent testimony on Capitol Hill, McCain spoke about the economy to about 350 employees of Bridgewater Associates, which manages $150 billion in hedge funds and other global investments. <\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater employees have contributed more than $60,000 to McCain&#8217;s campaign, according to financial reports, including five donations totaling $13,800 from Dalio, whose $4 billion fortune recently landed him 260th on Forbes magazine&#8217;s list of the 500 wealthiest people worldwide. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.greenwichtime.com\/ci_8872169\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwich Time- The Straight Talk Express stopped in town yesterday, with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaking at a town hall-style event hosted by hedge fund founder and Greenwich resident Ray Dalio. Before branching out into topics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","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=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}