Background
Hoenig, Jonathan was born on September 20, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of David and Ann Hoenig.
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Jonathan Hoenig
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Education
Bachelor of Communications Arts, Northwestern University, 1997.
Career
Hoenig was raised in Glencoe, Illinois, United States. He is a former floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, whose first book was published when he was 22. He is a frequent commentator in the financial press, and has written for: The Wall Street Journal Europe, Wired, Trader Monthly, Maxim, and Smartmoney.com.
He has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and was recently named one of The Chicago Sun-Times Thirty Under Thirty and Crain's Forty Under Forty. In 2013 Hoenig's firm became the first hedge fund to advertise in the US since the 1930s. Existing limitations on hedge fund advertising were lifted as a result of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.
In 2014, Hoenig was an informal advisor of Royalty Exchange a leading platform for buying and selling intellectual property. In September 2014, Hoenig stirred up controversy over racial profiling in a Fox News commentary piece, stating that "We should have been profiling on September 12, 2001. We dropped nuclear bombs on residential city centers.
Yes, profiling would be at least a good start. It's not on skin color, however. It's on ideology. We need to stop giving Qur'ans to Gitmo prisoners.
We need to stop having Ramadan celebrations in the White House. We have to stop saying the enemy is not Islamic. They are. That's how you get started."
In February 2015, Hoenig said on Fox News that those advocating mandatory vaccinations for the "so-called public good" could be ushering in "forced abortions" and "forced pills.".
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Politics
He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and a vocal supporter of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism.
Membership
Member National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, National Association Radio Talk Show Hosts.
