{"id":9264,"date":"2008-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"paulson-bucks-paulson-as-his-hedge-funds-score-1-billion-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/paulson-bucks-paulson-as-his-hedge-funds-score-1-billion-gain.html","title":{"rendered":"Paulson Bucks Paulson as His Hedge Funds Score $1 Billion Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; There&rsquo;s not a lot of light in Paulson &amp; Co.&rsquo;s 28th-floor headquarters on a drizzly November afternoon. The Alexander Calder sculpture and multicolored prints have been shipped to the firm&rsquo;s new offices six blocks south. Darkness envelops the New York skyline. <\/p>\n<p>The Dow Industrials have lost a total of 929 points over two days, and the jobless rate is poised to hit 6.5 percent. And John Paulson, who oversees $36 billion in hedge fund assets, isn&rsquo;t exactly Mr. Sunshine either. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You have deterioration in almost every asset class,&rdquo; Paulson says. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re looking at declines in housing prices, the health of manufacturers and the earnings of various companies. There are rising delinquencies in auto loans and commercial real estate.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; There&rsquo;s not a lot of light in Paulson &amp; Co.&rsquo;s 28th-floor headquarters on a drizzly November afternoon. The Alexander Calder sculpture and multicolored prints have been shipped to the firm&rsquo;s new offices six blocks south. Darkness envelops the [&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":[761,179,67,404,3991,150,81,2374,969,614,1297,3990],"class_list":["post-9264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asian-strategy","tag-best-performing-funds","tag-chief-executive","tag-downfall","tag-japanese-golf-courses","tag-market-disruptions","tag-newcastle","tag-open-ended-mutual-fund","tag-rally","tag-survey-respondents","tag-technology-client","tag-tug-of-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264","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=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}