{"id":384148,"date":"2010-03-03T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jim-chanos-its-ludicrous-to-think-hedge-funds-could-collude-to-take-down-governments-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-03T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:52:00","slug":"jim-chanos-its-ludicrous-to-think-hedge-funds-could-collude-to-take-down-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/384148","title":{"rendered":"Jim Chanos: It&#8217;s Ludicrous To Think Hedge Funds Could Collude To Take Down Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Bloomberg, hedge fund manager Jim Chanos weighs in on the topic of the day: the war on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/you-know-the-euro-is-toast-because-now-even-the-us-is-cracking-down-on-its-speculators-2010-3\">hedge funds<\/a> for their supposed collusion against the euro.<\/p>\n<p>His basic points, which we agree with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hedge funds are not colluding.<\/li>\n<li>Hedge funds are always blamed for other people&#8217;s failings (in this case governments).<\/li>\n<li>Hedge funds don&#8217;t have the power to take down a currency or a monetary union, even if they wanted to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OioOV9khhTQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OioOV9khhTQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jim-chanos-its-ludicrous-to-think-hedge-funds-could-collude-to-take-down-governments-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hedge-funds-are-fleeing-euro-trades-2010-3\">Savvy Hedge Funds Now Fleeing Sovereign Shorts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-much-damage-did-the-wall-street-journal-just-do-to-hedge-funds-2010-3\">How Much Damage Did The Wall Street Journal Just Do To Hedge Funds?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/you-know-the-euro-is-toast-because-now-even-the-us-is-cracking-down-on-its-speculators-2010-3\">You Could Now Be Arrested, In America, Just For Mentioning Europe&#8217;s Problems Over Dinner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Z8tNLyRyYRE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Bloomberg, hedge fund manager Jim Chanos weighs in on the topic of the day: the war on hedge funds for their supposed collusion against the euro. His basic points, which we agree with: Hedge funds are not colluding. Hedge funds are always blamed for other people&#8217;s failings (in this case governments). Hedge funds don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384148","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}