{"id":243,"date":"2009-01-26T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2009-01-26T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T18:06:24","slug":"i-coulda-cleaned-up-on-thisif-i-had-any-money-to-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/26\/i-coulda-cleaned-up-on-thisif-i-had-any-money-to-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"I coulda cleaned up on this…if I had any money to bet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iceland’s coalition government just fell into squabbling over…well, pretty much everything, it seems, but mostly whose economic policy sucks more and who should really run the country.<\/p>\n

That sounds so familiar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, yes.\u00c2\u00a0 This has been in the works for a while now.\u00c2\u00a0 The collapse of the Icelandic government<\/a> should come as no surprise.\u00c2\u00a0 When 10% of your GDP gets wiped off, people get pissed.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a lesson in that, I think.<\/p>\n

Keep an eye on the Baltic states and Hungary too.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and Italy.\u00c2\u00a0 The Italian government is pretty brutal, for a democracy, but all that means is that people are going to be even more pissed off and violent when they finally decide to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iceland’s coalition government just fell into squabbling over…well, pretty much everything, it seems, but mostly whose economic policy sucks more and who should really run the country. That sounds so familiar. Anyway, yes.\u00c2\u00a0 This has been in the works for a while now.\u00c2\u00a0 The collapse of the Icelandic government should come as no surprise.\u00c2\u00a0 When … Continue reading I coulda cleaned up on this…if I had any money to bet<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,52,61,71,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-fail","category-politics","category-rumour","category-strife","category-the-dismal-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}