{"id":228,"date":"2003-06-14T10:07:19","date_gmt":"2003-06-14T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2003-06-14T10:07:19","modified_gmt":"2003-06-14T17:07:19","slug":"the-economist-the-euro-sweden-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/06\/the-economist-the-euro-sweden-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist, the euro, Sweden, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Economist<\/em> focuses on the Nordic region in a special report this week. I scanned the part where it reports on Sweden&#8217;s upcoming euro referendum:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stefangeens.com\/graphics\/blog\/economist.gif?resize=354%2C1272\" width=\"354\" height=\"1272\"><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere this issue, <em>The Economist<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1842183\">is not at all impressed<\/a> with Germany&#8217;s performance as the supposed economic engine of the eurozone: &#8220;Only partly in jest, The Economist suggests that a better question is not whether Britain should join the currency zone, but whether Germany should leave.&#8221; Very interesting reading, and relevant to Sweden&#8217;s decision whether to join EMU; does Sweden really want to have the same interest rate required to get the German economy back on its feet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist focuses on the Nordic region in a special report this week. I scanned the part where it reports on Sweden&#8217;s upcoming euro referendum: Elsewhere this issue, The Economist is not at all impressed with Germany&#8217;s performance as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/06\/the-economist-the-euro-sweden-germany\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-economics","category-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-3G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}