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For Hedge Funds, Biggest Fear Is More Regulation By Tomoeh Murakami Tse Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 25, 2009 NEW YORK, June 24 -- The greatest fear among hedge fund managers and executives, who have seen their industry shrink in the financial crisis, is neither the flight of wealthy investors nor ill-functioning markets but regulation, according to a survey to be released Wednesday. . . . "What you don't want to do is run the risk of killing the entrepreneurial spirit that made this country great." . . . "The greatest threat is not from Washington. The greatest threat is from a malfunctioning economy," Leon Cooperman, co-founder of Omega Advisors, a $4 billion hedge fund, said in an interview.
___________________________________________________ That's the entrepreneurial spirit that caused you guys to invent all those toxic assets no one can get rid of? Or is it the inventive character of credit-default swaps that didn't happen to (and were never…