{"id":1018,"date":"2008-12-11T22:42:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T21:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/12\/11\/1018\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T22:42:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T21:42:51","slug":"debt-is-400-of-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/debt-is-400-of-gdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt is 400% of GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davemorris\/23760459\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/18\/23760459_dc56b23abd_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davemorris\/23760459\/\">dump the debt<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/davemorris\/\">Daveybot<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fraser Nelson is blogging that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/coffeehouse\/3078296\/the-true-extent-of-britains-debt.thtml\">the UK&#8217;s total debt now exceeds 400%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is far higher than any other G7 country &ndash; do check the graph in his posting.<\/p>\n<p>To make it even worse, most of it is short-term debt (second graph).<\/p>\n<p>These figures are so enormous that I can&#8217;t even begin to comprehend what the consequences are going to be.  An IMF bail-out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dump the debt Originally uploaded by Daveybot Fraser Nelson is blogging that the UK&#8217;s total debt now exceeds 400%. This is far higher than any other G7 country &ndash; do check the graph in his posting. To make it even worse, most of it is short-term debt (second graph). These figures are so enormous that I can&#8217;t even begin to comprehend what the consequences are going to be. An IMF bail-out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}