{"id":8276,"date":"2008-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"business-letters-curb-the-excesses-of-the-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/business-letters-curb-the-excesses-of-the-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Business Letters: Curb the excesses of the hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Times Online &#8211; The esteem of John Waples for the hedge funds (&ldquo;Get used to volatility: the hedgies are in control&rdquo;, last week) was not very sound financial journalism. <\/p>\n<p> Who else but these grossly leveraged entities would have the capital or the appetite for the short-selling that we have seen during the course of this economic turmoil? <\/p>\n<p> Waples should turn his investigative attention to our so-called regulators who, with every conceivable avenue of inspection available to them, have failed to track down the City insider traders who have made millions from this financial system. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article4448930.ece\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; The esteem of John Waples for the hedge funds (&ldquo;Get used to volatility: the hedgies are in control&rdquo;, last week) was not very sound financial journalism. Who else but these grossly leveraged entities would have the capital [&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":[312,1850,1898,1897,44,417],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-benchmarks","tag-foundations","tag-frame-walls","tag-global-economic-growth","tag-invoices","tag-staffers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","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=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}