{"id":25279,"date":"2011-03-25T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_portugals_woes_turn_spotlight_on_spain\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:15:38","slug":"wsj_portugals_woes_turn_spotlight_on_spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25279","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Portugal&#39;s Woes Turn Spotlight on Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal&#8217;s admission that it will probably need a financial bailout raises a question that will shape the outcome of the euro zone&#8217;s debt crisis: Is Spain next?<\/p>\n<p>The cost of saving Spain, a \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1.1 trillion ($1.56 trillion) economy, would dwarf previous bailouts and could test the financial strength of Europe as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>But if Spain can continue to repair investors&#8217; trust, as in recent weeks, then Europe stands a chance of containing the debt crisis to three countries, Greece, Ireland and Portugal, whose combined economies are half the size of Spain&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703784004576220833053911892.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal&#8217;s admission that it will probably need a financial bailout raises a question that will shape the outcome of the euro zone&#8217;s debt crisis: Is Spain next? The cost of saving Spain, a \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1.1 trillion ($1.56 trillion) economy, would dwarf<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25279\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,460,592,149,591,200,590,458,446,585,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-portugal","category-spain","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}