{"id":45,"date":"2011-07-07T22:26:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T02:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-07-07T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T02:26:28","slug":"but-it-doesnt-matter-because-the-eu-is-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/07\/but-it-doesnt-matter-because-the-eu-is-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"But it doesn&#8217;t matter, because the EU is doomed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I confess to some small satisfaction in having been absolutely right about what was happening and would happen since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/daynotes\/2010\/2010-19.html#Mon\">I started posting about the collapse of the EU and the Euro<\/a> more than a year ago. Of course, my satisfaction is tempered by the fact that we&#8217;re facing a world-wide disaster, and the fact that the US will do much better than other nations is of little comfort because in absolute terms we&#8217;re going to be hurting badly.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, a few minutes ago I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/farewell-european-union-its-been-nice-knowing-you-2011-7\">very smart woman<\/a> (obviously, she&#8217;s a genius because she agrees completely with me).<\/p>\n<p>The countdown has already begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess to some small satisfaction in having been absolutely right about what was happening and would happen since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/daynotes\/2010\/2010-19.html#Mon\">I started posting about the collapse of the EU and the Euro<\/a> more than a year ago. Of course, my satisfaction is tempered by the fact that we&#8217;re facing a world-wide disaster, and the fact that the US will do much better than other nations is of little comfort because in absolute terms we&#8217;re going to be hurting badly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/07\/but-it-doesnt-matter-because-the-eu-is-doomed\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: But it doesn&#8217;t matter, because the EU is doomed&#8230; &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}