Tag Archives: Pension-Fund Looters Get Tax Breaks

Matt Taibbi -Pension-Fund Looters Get Tax Breaks, Too – 7 October 2013

154px-Matt_TaibbiA few weeks ago, I wrote a feature on pension reform in states like Rhode Island for Rolling Stone. Since the piece was sharply critical of alternative investments like hedge funds, I expected a heated response, and got one right away. In fact, a series of raving/chest-thumping emails from one Manhattan Institute hedge fund billionaire appeared in my email inbox about four and a half seconds after the piece went live on the Rolling Stone website.

This colorful personage calmed down eventually, though, and I figured a more sophisticated, for-public-consumption response would come from those quarters later on.

Read the whole story at: www.rollingstone.com/ link to original article

Advertisement