{"id":374831,"date":"2010-02-26T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23412"},"modified":"2010-02-26T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:29:32","slug":"wall-street%e2%80%99s-love-affair-with-curling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374831","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street\u2019s Love Affair with Curling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good to know these folks can take a break from <a href=\"http:\/\/plunderthecrimeofourtime.com\">destroying this nation&#8217;s economy<\/a>. \u201cIt is like drinking merlot,\u201d said one trader. See a video below on what the heck <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curling\">curling<\/a> is. Eric Dash writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/26\/business\/26curling.html?hp\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wall Street trading is often described as a blood sport. But inside the great investment houses, the sport of the moment is, of all things, curling \u2014 that oddball of the Olympics that is sort of like shuffleboard on ice.<\/p>\n<p>This slow-poke game, which originated in 16th-century Scotland, has captivated the Type-A world of Wall Street almost by accident. CNBC, whose market chatter is the background music on trading floors, switches to curling from Vancouver shortly after the closing bell. And so, after a day of braying for money in the markets, traders are winding down with curling. It is, fans say, a bit of after-market therapy. Curling is so slow and drawn out that it becomes mesmerizing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is like drinking merlot,\u201d said Douglas A. Kass, the president of Seabreeze Partners, who got hooked on Olympic curling a few years ago via CNBC. (Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/26\/business\/26curling.html?hp\">New York Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to know these folks can take a break from destroying this nation&#8217;s economy. \u201cIt is like drinking merlot,\u201d said one trader. See a video below on what the heck curling is. Eric Dash writes in the New York Times: Wall Street trading is often described as a blood sport. But inside the great investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}