{"id":9201,"date":"2008-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"experts-show-the-way-on-post-bush-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/experts-show-the-way-on-post-bush-portfolios.html","title":{"rendered":"Experts show the way on post-Bush portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asbury Park Press &#8211; The end of the George W. Bush era brings some Grateful Dead lyrics to mind: &quot;What a long, strange trip it&#8217;s been.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The first Bush term opened following the bursting of the tech bubble, which had been inflated by cocktail-napkin business plans for dot-coms. Stocks plummeted. The economy contracted dramatically in the third quarter of 2000, followed by a full-blown recession in March 2001 and the horror of Sept. 11. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cut interest rates down to practically nothing and, with help from the Bush administration&#8217;s tax cuts and unbridled spending by Congress, created easy-money housing and credit bubbles during the Age of Froth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.app.com\/article\/20081123\/BUSINESS\/811230333\/1003\/business\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asbury Park Press &#8211; The end of the George W. Bush era brings some Grateful Dead lyrics to mind: &quot;What a long, strange trip it&#8217;s been.&quot; The first Bush term opened following the bursting of the tech bubble, which had [&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":[136,2796,1385,3367,763,3060,3365,282,2916,3853,2770],"class_list":["post-9201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-allocations","tag-dealer-operations","tag-federal-reserve-chairman-alan-greenspan","tag-former-federal-reserve-chairman-alan-greenspan","tag-inco","tag-market-losses","tag-much-money","tag-shanghai-composite","tag-silicon-valley","tag-socialism","tag-watchful-eye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201","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=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}