[lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 10:04:11 PDT 2005


On 8/25/05, jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com <jmhayes at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > you'd think that "hedge" funds would hedge their bets better.
>
> only if you thought that "hedge funds" were properly named :-)

that's the point. The aren't properly named. The Long-Term Capital Management "hedge" fund should have been called the Short-Term Speculate and Leverage fund. -- Jim Devine "Economics is the study of money and why it is good." -- Woody Allen



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