{"id":119013,"date":"2021-01-30T04:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/what-are-hedge-funds-and-how-did-they-accidentally-cause-gamestops-massive-surge"},"modified":"2021-01-30T04:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T12:22:23","slug":"what-are-hedge-funds-and-how-did-they-accidentally-cause-gamestops-massive-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/what-are-hedge-funds-and-how-did-they-accidentally-cause-gamestops-massive-surge","title":{"rendered":"What are hedge funds, and how did they (accidentally) cause GameStop\u2019s massive surge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-hedge-funds-and-how-did-they-accidentally-cause-gamestops-massive-surge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s driving GameStop\u2019s astronomical surge is an unusual battle between Reddit nerds and Wall Street\u2019s billion-dollar hedge funds. But what is a \u201chedge fund\u201d, you may ask? We explain it all (very simply) here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s driving GameStop\u2019s astronomical surge is an unusual battle between Reddit nerds and Wall Street\u2019s billion-dollar hedge funds. But what is a \u201chedge fund\u201d, you may ask? We explain it all (very simply) here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}