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HEDGEMONY.(The Talk of the Town)(hedge funds)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 22-MAY-06

Author: Surowiecki, James
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In the past five years, hedge funds have become a new power on Wall Street; the number of funds has doubled, to more than eight thousand, and the assets they control have tripled, to more than a trillion dollars. In the process, they've also become a favorite scapegoat for bad financial news, blamed for everything from inflating the housing bubble and demolishing stock prices to jacking up the price of oil. A German politician has called hedge funds "locusts" of the global economy, while William Donaldson, the former head of the S.E.C., has warned that "disaster" looms if hedge funds aren't regulated. The title of a recent column made the point nicely: "Instruments of Satan."

That's not quite what Alfred Winslow Jones had in mind when he started the first hedge fund, in 1949. Looking to...

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