{"id":5771,"date":"2010-01-07T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2010-01-07T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:10:10","slug":"uk-debt-hot-cakes-or-hot-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/07\/uk-debt-hot-cakes-or-hot-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"UK debt: Hot cakes or hot potatoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/121526\/more-on-that-gilded-gilt-auction\/\">FT Alphaville  \u00ac\u00aa More on that gilded Gilt auction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The nay sayers are out, but yesterday's \u00a34 billion UK gilts auction was over 2.5 times over subscribed.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it was an attractive issue. But the point is a simple one that the doom merchants would like to ignore and it's this: when the time comes to put cash on the table people are buying Uk government debt.<\/p>\n<p>And I suspect they will do so for a long, long time to come, at affordable rates of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT Alphaville \u00ac\u00aa More on that gilded Gilt auction. The nay sayers are out, but yesterday&#8217;s \u00a34 billion UK gilts auction was over 2.5 times<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/07\/uk-debt-hot-cakes-or-hot-potatoes\/\"><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-5771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771","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=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}