{"id":24449,"date":"2022-03-04T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24449"},"modified":"2022-03-04T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:48:56","slug":"why-is-the-kentucky-teacher-retirment-fund-investing-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24449","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Kentucky teacher retirment fund investing in Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as more and more information comes out about who has been supporting Russia and it&#8217;s banks, there have been a few surprises revealed in the past couple of days. One of them was the Kentucky teacher&#8217;s retirement fund that was the second largest investor in Sberbank, one of the banks that has just been sanctioned for supporting Putin and his invasion of Ukraine&#8230;initial reports were that the fund lost over 12 million dollars as the shares in the bank fell to junk status&#8230;and that would be bad enough to put teacher&#8217;s retirements at risk with investments in a bank that has been involved in many shady investments over the years&#8230;but just today, representatives from the teacher&#8217;s fund said &#8220;oh, no&#8230;.we sold all of the investments the day before Russia invaded&#8221;&#8230;and that either has to be the smartest fund manager in the world or he was tipped off by the bank or any one of Moscow Mitch McConnell&#8217;s Russian contacts&#8230;you know, the Russian oligarchs that he pals around with and who he got sanctions removed from for their part in getting the idiot trump elected in 2016&#8230;and who said they were going to invest hundreds of millions in an aluminum plant in Kentucky that went pfffft once the sanctions were lifted&#8230;.this whole thing screams of insider trading on the part of the fund manager that the feds should be looking into right now&#8230;and into who recommended investing American money in a corrupt Russian bank in the first place&#8230;who got paid off to do it would be my first question&#8230;of many, many others&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as more and more information comes out about who has been supporting Russia and it&#8217;s banks, there have been a few surprises revealed in the past couple of days. One of them was the Kentucky teacher&#8217;s retirement fund that was the second largest investor in Sberbank, one of the banks that has just been sanctioned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is the Kentucky teacher retirment fund investing in Russia?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2008,3199,199],"class_list":["post-24449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-insider-trading","tag-kentucky-teachers-fund-russian-investment","tag-mitch-mcconnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24451,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449\/revisions\/24451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}