{"id":11049,"date":"2012-05-23T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11049"},"modified":"2012-05-23T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T13:52:42","slug":"greece-is-tearing-europe-apart-politically-socially-and-economically-william-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/05\/23\/greece-is-tearing-europe-apart-politically-socially-and-economically-william-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece Is Tearing Europe Apart Politically, Socially and Economically: William Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Ticker on Yahoo has the story and interview headlined <a title=\"The Daily Ticker article\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/daily-ticker\/greece-tearing-europe-apart-politically-socially-economically-william-131234803.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Greece Is Tearing Europe Apart Politically, Socially and Economically: William Black<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think the headline is slightly off in that it might give you the impression that William Black thinks Greece is at fault here.\u00a0 More to his point is the remark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Austerity\u2026is an inconceivably awful policy,&#8221; Black says. The European periphery nations are suffering great depressions \u2014 not recessions &#8211; he notes, and the region&#8217;s best and brightest are emigrating from Europe because of high unemployment and economic uncertainty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing about William Black, a former senior financial regulator and author of the book <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/09\/11\/the-best-way-to-rob-a-bank-is-to-own-a-politician\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One<\/strong><\/a>, he doesn&#8217;t mince words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Ticker on Yahoo has the story and interview headlined Greece Is Tearing Europe Apart Politically, Socially and Economically: William Black. I think the headline is slightly off in that it might give you the impression that William Black thinks Greece is at fault here.\u00a0 More to his point is the remark: &#8220;Austerity\u2026is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11051,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions\/11051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}