{"id":14205,"date":"2012-02-22T09:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T09:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14205"},"modified":"2012-02-22T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T09:55:37","slug":"greece-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/22\/greece-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece: RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/feb\/22\/plaster-leaves-greece-independent-name?INTCMP=SRCH\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Elliott notes<\/a> this morning, the Greek bail out leaves the contrary as a\u00a0functioning\u00a0state in name only.<\/p>\n<p>Because German banks lent recklessly to Greece\u00a0they\u00a0have now, in effect, appointed the Troika to\u00a0run the country to recover their debt.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who thinks this is a solution, let alone an acceptable\u00a0solution, has to be mad.<\/p>\n<p>Have we learned nothing. This is 1919 all over again. And look where that ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Larry Elliott notes this morning, the Greek bail out leaves the contrary as a\u00a0functioning\u00a0state in name only. Because German banks lent recklessly to Greece\u00a0they\u00a0have<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/22\/greece-rip\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}