Hedge Funds Will Soon Surpass 2008 Peaks

wsj.com:

Total hedge-fund assets are approaching $2 trillion and are soon expected to surpass their peak in early 2008, according to industry analysts. Even start-ups and smaller funds, which were shunned by many investors in the wake of the crisis, are benefiting.

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Comments

[Kenz300]

01:53 PM on 05/23/2011

But Republicans do not want to regulate Wall Street.

[nanoscare]

01:16 AM on 04/19/2011

As gas prices hit levels not seen since 2008 peaks...

[irochfpst]

07:17 PM on 04/18/2011

it nice to know just how much money will find its way to places other than the economy.

[Roy E Pearson]

06:07 PM on 04/18/2011

I can get junk mail off line. Huffington Post does not need to p[lace articles that after a brief blurb send on to a page that requires a subscription to read further.

No wonder there are only 7 comments here.

Shame on HP. If it is an advertizement then label it as such.

[tedsingingfox]

02:26 PM on 04/18/2011

destroy Wall St. Dismantle the big banks. Starve them out of business. Put your money into local credit unions. Grab your torches and pitchforks and start kicking some hedge fund A$$!!!

[cassie reinara]

02:12 PM on 04/18/2011

Isn't it wonderful how things have changed??? Really??? Come on. This is because the Democrats are a partially owned subsidiary of Corporate America and the Republicans/Tea Party are wholly owned subsidiary. Things will change, but it seems for the worse.

[timetocookdinner]

12:50 PM on 04/18/2011

I thought gambling was illegal in most states. Are hedge funds run out of the Indian Reservations?

[robinhood1]

10:13 PM on 04/18/2011

Manhattan hasn't been owned by the Indians in almost 400 years.

[kamact]

12:29 PM on 04/18/2011

You can thank these financial terrorist groups for the higher cost of commodities,...which results in higher cost of all consumer goods,...They are just working at taking from the many to give to the few.

[wdw808]

12:41 PM on 04/18/2011

ok

[Livid]

12:21 PM on 04/18/2011

And what, exactly, does this do for the US economy and job creation?

Answer: Nothing.

More pigs at the trough feeding at the expense of those at tge heart of the US economy who depend upon and use the US financial and banking systems.

[wdw808]

12:43 PM on 04/18/2011

money available has the possibility of adding jobs when employers feel the need

like it or not

[Roy E Pearson]

06:18 PM on 04/18/2011

Yes and when it rains plants get water. Can you explain what this oblique remark means?

understand it or not

[missprissanna]

07:03 AM on 04/19/2011

The stock market has been straight up since the fall at the beginning of this crisis.....how many jobs have been created BECAUSE of the rise of the stock market???

What have the created besides more wealth for a few?