{"id":556,"date":"2013-03-12T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/?p=556"},"modified":"2013-03-12T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:02:07","slug":"rewards-of-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/news\/rewards-of-austerity","title":{"rendered":"Rewards of austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/03\/eurozone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-557 aligncenter\" title=\"eurozone\" alt=\"eurozone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/03\/eurozone.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/03\/eurozone.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/03\/eurozone-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-557 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"eurozone\" alt=\"eurozone\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20540%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20540%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/03\/eurozone.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/03\/eurozone-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/03\/eurozone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Rewards of austerity:<\/b> As a consequence of economic contraction and falling imports in the troubled Eurozone countries, their foreign trade deficits are falling.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter the five known as the PIIGS together recorded the first surplus since 1999.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">The improving trade balance of the Eurozone as a whole explains the recent strength of the euro in terms of other major currencies.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">CopyRight \u2013 OnTarget 2013 by Martin Spring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewards of austerity: As a consequence of economic contraction and falling imports in the troubled Eurozone countries, their foreign trade deficits are falling. In the third quarter the five known as the PIIGS together recorded the first surplus since 1999. The improving trade balance of the Eurozone as a whole explains the recent strength of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,37,1,1077],"tags":[551,745,604,470],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-news","category-views","tag-austerity","tag-currency","tag-eurozone","tag-rewards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}