[FoRK] Demonizing the hedge funds...

[rst at ai.mit.edu]

Jeff Bone writes:
 > 		
 > A demon of our own design no doubt, but...  the left's vitriole is  
 > laughable.  For all that I've railed about the vast right-wing media  
 > conspiracy, the left doesn't get a free pass.  Check out NPR's latest  
 > anti-hedge fund propaganda:
 > 
 >    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89723375&ft=1&f=1012

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Right on!  These people who think that hedge fund managers have been
racking up undeserved gains over the last few years have just got to
be pinkos with a secret stash of stained, dittoed pamphlets by Lenin
under the bed.  Like Martin "Why Globalization Works" Wolf, who
recently published an even nastier attack, arguing that the hedge
funds' business model is just fundamentally unsound, and even
suggesting that this may be a symptom of deeper problems with our
whole financial system:

  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c8941ad4-f503-11dc-a21b-000077b07658.html

This was a column in that miserable socialist rag, the Financial
Times.  You can tell just by looking at it that they're airy-fairy
left-wing pansies who never earned a dollar in their lives.  Hell,
the *paper* is pink.
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I probably shouldn't post something like this heading into a
weekend of intermittent connectivity at best, but... seriously,
Jeff.  Don't you think you're going just a little over the top
here?

rst