{"id":55711,"date":"2016-12-19T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55711"},"modified":"2016-12-19T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:22:14","slug":"david-mccormick-president-of-worlds-biggest-hedge-fund-trump-front-runner-for-defense-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2016\/david-mccormick-president-of-worlds-biggest-hedge-fund-trump-front-runner-for-defense-deputy.html","title":{"rendered":"David McCormick, president of world&#8217;s biggest hedge fund Trump front-runner for defense deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Chicago Tribune) McCormick, president of Bridgewater Associates Inc.,was eyed earlier as a possible Treasury secretary, a post that ultimately went to former hedge fund investor Steve Mnuchin. If confirmed by the Senate, McCormick will help Trump&#8217;s Pentagon nominee, retired general James Mattis, with day-to-day management of a bureaucracy with about two million active-duty and civilian employees and a budget of more than $600 billion a year&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/ct-trump-mccormick-defense-deputy-20161216-story.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Chicago Tribune) McCormick, president of Bridgewater Associates Inc.,was eyed earlier as a possible Treasury secretary, a post that ultimately went to former hedge fund investor Steve Mnuchin. If confirmed by the Senate, McCormick will help Trump&#8217;s Pentagon nominee, retired general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55712,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55711\/revisions\/55712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}