{"id":45800,"date":"2014-09-11T03:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ibd_the_economic_and_political_fallout_of_a_yes_vote_on_the_scottish_refere\/"},"modified":"2014-09-11T03:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T03:50:30","slug":"ibd_the_economic_and_political_fallout_of_a_yes_vote_on_the_scottish_refere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45800","title":{"rendered":"(IBD) The Economic and Political Fallout Of A Yes Vote on the Scottish Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 307-year-old union between England and Scotland has been one of history&#8217;s most successful, but a possible split has investors and lawmakers fearing the potential aftershocks.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;no&#8221; vote against Scottish independence was once a foregone conclusion for the Sept. 18 referendum, but a recent narrowing of polls \u201d\u201d with some putting &#8220;yes&#8221; in the lead \u201d\u201d has made the United Kingdom&#8217;s biggest constitutional change since the Irish Free State&#8217;s creation in 1922 a distinct possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Secession could throw a wrench into the U.K.&#8217;s economic recovery, which has been among Europe&#8217;s strongest. Scotland&#8217;s share of U.K. gross domestic product is around 9.2%, or 148 billion pounds ($238.3 billion). Its 5.3 million residents comprise 8.3% of the total population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/economy\/091014-716899-economic-political-fallout-from-independent-scotland.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 307-year-old union between England and Scotland has been one of history&#8217;s most successful, but a possible split has investors and lawmakers fearing the potential aftershocks. A &#8220;no&#8221; vote against Scottish independence was once a foregone conclusion for the Sept.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45800\">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":[39,40,50,582,589,595,592,149,199,144,133,151,585,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45800","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=45800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}