{"id":192994,"date":"2009-01-29T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/29\/senators-levin-and-grassley-move-to-regulate-hedge-funds\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T23:36:00","slug":"senators-levin-and-grassley-move-to-regulate-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/29\/senators-levin-and-grassley-move-to-regulate-hedge-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Levin and Grassley Move to Regulate Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=a_NUkRBjQzfk\">Hedge Fund Transparency Act<\/a> would force hedge funds to register with regulators, file annual disclosures, and cooperate with SEC investigators.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>The most worrisome thing, Madoff not withstanding, is not how hedge funds can break the law, but how much of what they do is legal, since a lot of it appears to be market manipulation and insider trading to my untrained eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hedge Fund Transparency Act would force hedge funds to register with regulators, file annual disclosures, and cooperate with SEC investigators. It&#8217;s a start. The most worrisome thing, Madoff not withstanding, is not how hedge funds can break the law, but how much of what they do is legal, since a lot of it appears &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,1020,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-legislation","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}