{"id":69571,"date":"2019-06-07T00:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T04:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69571"},"modified":"2019-06-07T00:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T04:50:16","slug":"fortress-billionaire-wes-edens-bets-on-freedom-gas-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2019\/fortress-billionaire-wes-edens-bets-on-freedom-gas-exports.html","title":{"rendered":"Fortress Billionaire Wes Edens Bets on \u2018Freedom Gas\u2019 Exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Wes Edens is an unlikely evangelist for the benefits of U.S. natural gas exports &#8212; or &#8220;freedom gas,&#8221; as the Department of Energy likes to call it. The 57-year-old billionaire is a creature of Wall Street. After stints at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and BlackRock Inc., he co-founded Fortress Investment Group, the private equity and hedge fund firm. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-06-04\/fortress-billionaire-wes-edens-bets-on-freedom-gas-exports\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Wes Edens is an unlikely evangelist for the benefits of U.S. natural gas exports &#8212; or &#8220;freedom gas,&#8221; as the Department of Energy likes to call it. The 57-year-old billionaire is a creature of Wall Street. After stints at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571","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=69571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69572,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571\/revisions\/69572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}