{"id":32370,"date":"2012-05-07T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/francois_hollande_has_ten_weeks_to_avert_a_french_bond_crisis\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:25:04","slug":"francois_hollande_has_ten_weeks_to_avert_a_french_bond_crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32370","title":{"rendered":"Ambrose Evans-Pritchard&#8211;Francois Hollande has ten weeks to avert a French bond crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My own view is&#8230; [that] the German deflation regime is &#8211; in the current circumstances &#8211; the greater threat to Greco-Latin societies, and to post-War comity in Europe. Sometimes you have to go through a cathartic trauma to break free.<\/p>\n<p>But it is also true that Germany\u2019s own democracy may turn fractious if policy strays too far from German needs and Grundgesetz. This is EMU\u2019s curse. It destabilizes each nation state in turn, each in different ways &#8211; a \u201cnegative sum game\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The worst of all worlds would be a nasty spat between Mr Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel that poisoned the atmosphere without bringing about any substantive change to Europe\u201d\u02dcs \u201casphyxiation compact\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/comment\/ambroseevans_pritchard\/9249598\/Francois-Hollande-has-ten-weeks-to-avert-a-French-bond-crisis.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My own view is&#8230; [that] the German deflation regime is &#8211; in the current circumstances &#8211; the greater threat to Greco-Latin societies, and to post-War comity in Europe. Sometimes you have to go through a cathartic trauma to break free.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32370\">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":[40,50,460,582,589,595,592,149,591,200,590,144,468,151,585,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-france","category-politics-in-general","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\/32370","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=32370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}