{"id":5116,"date":"2013-02-26T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2013-02-26T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:43:00","slug":"is-austerity-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/is-austerity-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Austerity the Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne\u2019s latest embarrassment is his own fault. He often justifies his austerity-first fiscal policy by saying that, without it, the country\u2019s triple-A rating would be in jeopardy. He attacked the previous government and even\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0for an election when public debt was put on negative credit watch in 2009. Judged by his own criterion, he has flopped. \u00a0Article<\/a><\/p>\n

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British Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne\u2019s latest embarrassment is his own fault. He often justifies his austerity-first fiscal policy by saying that, without it, the country\u2019s triple-A rating would be in jeopardy. He attacked the previous government and even\u00a0called\u00a0for an … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t