{"id":6939,"date":"2010-05-25T07:42:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T05:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2010-05-25T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T05:42:47","slug":"bets-against-pound-reach-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/25\/bets-against-pound-reach-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Bets against pound reach record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/thecut\/2010\/05\/24\/241296\/bets-against-pound-reach-record-levels\/\">FT Alphaville  \u00ac\u00aa Bets against pound reach record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speculators raised their bets against sterling to record levels after the recent UK general election, as worries escalated over the government&rsquo;s finances, the <a title=\"Bets against pound reach record levels - FT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1cbbbae4-6718-11df-bf08-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_blank\">FT said<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought the Tories said electing them would stop this happening?<\/p>\n<p>Another rune George must have read incorrectly is all I can presume.<\/p>\n<p>Which assumes George uses things as sophisticated as runes to help him manage the economy, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT Alphaville \u00ac\u00aa Bets against pound reach record. Speculators raised their bets against sterling to record levels after the recent UK general election, as worries<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/25\/bets-against-pound-reach-record\/\"><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-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","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=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}