{"id":550,"date":"2011-04-13T07:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T05:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=550"},"modified":"2011-05-12T23:21:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T21:21:15","slug":"portugals-unnecessary-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/portugals-unnecessary-bailout\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal&#8217;s Unnecessary Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fishman, Robert<\/p>\n<p>Portugal &#8216;s plea for help with its debts from the International Monetary  Fund and the European Union last week should be a warning to democracies  everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis that began with the bailouts of Greece and Ireland last year has taken an ugly turn. However, this third national request for a bailout is not really about debt. Portugal had strong economic performance in  the 1990s and was managing its recovery from the global recession better  than several other countries in Europe, but it has come under unfair  and arbitrary pressure from bond traders, speculators and credit rating  analysts who, for short-sighted or ideological reasons, have now managed  to drive out one democratically elected administration and potentially  tie the hands of the next one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae:<\/strong> The New York Times<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/13\/opinion\/13fishman.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishman, Robert Portugal &#8216;s plea for help with its debts from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union last week should be a warning to democracies everywhere. The crisis that began with the bailouts of Greece and Ireland last year has taken an ugly turn. However, this third national request for a bailout is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-37","tag-26","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}