{"id":193357,"date":"2008-12-20T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/hedge-funds-fing-hedge-funds\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T04:25:00","slug":"hedge-funds-fing-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/hedge-funds-fing-hedge-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds???? F$#@ing Hedge Funds?!?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, it now appears that there is no segment of the finance industry too opaque to receive aid from the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n

This time, it’s hedge funds that are the recipient of Helicopter Ben’s largesse<\/a>, being allowed access to the $200 billion Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF).<\/p>\n

This is like lending Sweeney Todd<\/span> money to open a combined barber – butcher school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, it now appears that there is no segment of the finance industry too opaque to receive aid from the Federal Reserve. This time, it’s hedge funds that are the recipient of Helicopter Ben’s largesse, being allowed access to the $200 billion Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). This is like lending Sweeney Todd money …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193357"}],"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=193357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}