{"id":2897,"date":"2011-11-11T01:16:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2011-11-11T01:16:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:16:36","slug":"the-maths-behind-the-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-maths-behind-the-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"The maths behind the madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government debt dynamics, once an esoteric subject of interest only to macroeconomists, are suddenly in vogue. With Greece flirting with default, Italy&#8217;s bond yields rising fast, and America&#8217;s government bonds losing their AAA status, public-debt burdens have become dinner-party talk. Our interactive chart above shows current IMF forecasts but also allows you to input some basic economic assumptions to see where general government debt as a percentage of GDP might\u00a0head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>The Economist<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/dailychart\/2011\/11\/debt-dynamics-0\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government debt dynamics, once an esoteric subject of interest only to macroeconomists, are suddenly in vogue. With Greece flirting with default, Italy&#8217;s bond yields rising fast, and America&#8217;s government bonds losing their AAA status, public-debt burdens have become dinner-party talk. Our interactive chart above shows current IMF forecasts but also allows you to input some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}