{"id":8921,"date":"2008-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"barney-frank-wields-clout-to-curb-private-equity-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/barney-frank-wields-clout-to-curb-private-equity-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Barney Frank Wields Clout to Curb Private Equity, Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; U.S. Representative Barney Frank is walking through Statuary Hall in the Capitol, a portrait of rumples and wrinkles. His left shirttail hangs out over his belt. Reporters and photographers are hounding him. Cameras are whirring. Questions are being shouted.             <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How&#8217;s it going?&#8221; one reporter shouts.     <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you let me get in, I can find out,&#8221; Frank says, before disappearing into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s office to begin negotiations with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and a handful of lawmakers on a $700 billion legislative package to rescue troubled financial institutions.     <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601068&#038;sid=a2wM7Rh2K6mc&#038;refer=economy\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; U.S. Representative Barney Frank is walking through Statuary Hall in the Capitol, a portrait of rumples and wrinkles. His left shirttail hangs out over his belt. Reporters and photographers are hounding him. Cameras are whirring. Questions are being [&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":[1659,2796,2961,3035,3291,402,2212,3292,1658,340,2163,3290,2952],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia-stock-markets","tag-dealer-operations","tag-financial-services-committee","tag-house-financial-services-committee","tag-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi","tag-investment-firm","tag-jp-morgan-chase","tag-newton-city-hall","tag-peers","tag-savings-and-loan-crisis","tag-securities-law","tag-stabilization-fund","tag-women-and-minorities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","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=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}