{"id":9527,"date":"2008-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-oil-prices-and-resulting-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/hedge-funds-oil-prices-and-resulting-recession.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds, Oil Prices and Resulting Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; In 1997, some observers feared an impending global recession as a result of the headwinds stemming from the Asian financial crisis. However, within two years, those fears had dissipated and were replaced with new concerns of irrational exuberance.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the U.S. economic downturn beginning in 2008 initially appeared to be relatively benign. Most observers believed that a moderation in U.S. economic growth was essential to prevent an over-heating of the global economy. It was further believed that the problems confronting the U.S. economy were of its own making and would have little effect on global economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, some economists did forecast a U.S. recession in 2008 as a result of mounting home foreclosures. Such forecasts were however widely dismissed as being unduly alarmist during the first quarter of 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/112735-hedge-funds-oil-prices-and-resulting-recession\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; In 1997, some observers feared an impending global recession as a result of the headwinds stemming from the Asian financial crisis. However, within two years, those fears had dissipated and were replaced with new concerns of irrational [&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":[2797,2721,4910,1812,4589,4905,1897,280,4908,4907,4906,4911,4909,4532],"class_list":["post-9527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asian-financial-crisis","tag-economic-downturn","tag-economists","tag-fears","tag-first-quarter","tag-global-recession","tag-global-economic-growth","tag-global-economy","tag-headwinds","tag-home-foreclosures","tag-irrational-exuberance","tag-moderation","tag-observers","tag-seeking-alpha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527","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=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}