{"id":7387,"date":"2010-10-15T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2010-10-15T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T16:21:43","slug":"congressional-effect-making-money-while-congress-is-out-of-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7387\/congressional-effect-making-money-while-congress-is-out-of-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Effect: Making Money While Congress is Out of Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/4371181\/markets-better-when-congress-is-out-of-session\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Fox Business interview with Eric Singer<\/a>, the founder of Congressional Effect Management, an investment firm that only gets into the stock market when Congress is out of session.\u00a0 The key to Singer\u2019s strategy is avoiding \u2018political risk\u2019 \u2013 the damage to wealth creation that Congress causes through taxes and regulation (real or threatened).<\/p>\n<p>Read this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43\/709-investment-fund-shows-that-betting-against-congress-is-a-great-way-to-make-money \" target=\"_blank\"> CFIF profile of Congressional Effect Management<\/a> for a more in-depth discussion on Singer\u2019s time-tested, data-driven approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this Fox Business interview with Eric Singer, the founder of Congressional Effect Management, an investment firm that only gets into the stock market when Congress is out of session.\u00a0 The key to Singer\u2019s strategy is avoiding \u2018political risk\u2019 \u2013 the damage to wealth creation that Congress causes through taxes and regulation (real or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,1955,1918,1956,1958,1957,300,292,71],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-congressional-effect","tag-eric-singer","tag-fox-business","tag-investment","tag-political-risk","tag-regulation","tag-stock-market","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7388,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions\/7388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}