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Rightardia comment: Hedge funds were directly involved in the US financial melt down. Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, who collapsed, had billions invested in hedge funds. Any US whining about regulating hedge funds in the EU will fall on deaf ears. There are still tax havens in Europe such as Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Andorra and Monaco. US regulation of hedge funds is also likely. According to Global research:

The hedge funds play a key role in this process of restructuring. These speculative transactions (the panoply of derivatives, options, futures, index funds, etc) often transacted through hedge funds overshadow the workings of stock market transactions, and their relationship to real economic activity.

The hedge funds are private investment funds, which manage the pooled funds of wealthy investors. While they are often linked to major financial institutions, they are totally unregulated. They operate with a large pool of money capital, which is used to undertake highly leveraged speculative transactions. The latter have the characteristic that profits can be reaped when the market goes up, but also when the market goes down.

source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10268

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