{"id":334,"date":"2009-02-17T03:47:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T11:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2009-02-17T03:47:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T11:47:28","slug":"panic-at-the-economic-disco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/17\/panic-at-the-economic-disco\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic! at the economic disco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short economic roundup:<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s economy is going down the tubes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jmfkCQFvxtt6IXRmfAjmFGTya2yAD96CJD1O0\">at the fastest rate in 35 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/feb\/16\/ireland-debt-recession\">could default<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/comment\/ambroseevans_pritchard\/4623525\/Failure-to-save-East-Europe-will-lead-to-worldwide-meltdown.html\">Keep an eye on Eastern Europe<\/a> (yes, I know the Telegraph are apocalyptic enough as it is, but hysteria aside, there are valid concerns about the state of the region)<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s recovery may be riding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aeaBH8CUU9NY&amp;refer=home\">on the back of sham loans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kansas is having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/637\/story\/1037212.html\">money trouble<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/11e38dcc-fc66-11dd-aed8-000077b07658.html\">Collateralized Loan Obligations<\/a> could be next financial black swan.<\/p>\n<p>Santander has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews\/idUSLG64663720090216\">liquidity issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In summation, things don&#8217;t look too good.\u00c2\u00a0 More and more, I find myself agreeing with <a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2009\/02\/journal-the-depression-scenario.html\">John Robb<\/a>, even when I actively try not to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short economic roundup: Japan&#8217;s economy is going down the tubes at the fastest rate in 35 years. Ireland could default. Keep an eye on Eastern Europe (yes, I know the Telegraph are apocalyptic enough as it is, but hysteria aside, there are valid concerns about the state of the region) China&#8217;s recovery may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/17\/panic-at-the-economic-disco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Panic! at the economic disco<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[148,13,115,139,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-minutes-in-the-future","category-articles-by-others","category-black-swan","category-tactical-polyvalence","category-the-dismal-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}