{"id":153884,"date":"2010-01-08T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/funding-and-the-patriotism-test-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-08T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:56:00","slug":"moodys-quietly-on-the-lookout-for-civil-war-and-signs-of-social-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/153884","title":{"rendered":"Moody&#8217;s Quietly On The Lookout For Civil War And Signs Of Social Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4a7756b808f4c83f679f3276\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gillian-tett.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, some of the brightest minds at Moody&rsquo;s rating agency have been mulling a fascinating question: should they introduce a formal rating of &ldquo;social cohesion&rdquo; into sovereign debt indices, when they judge whether a government is likely to default on its debt &ndash; or not?<\/p>\n<p>So far, neither Moody&rsquo;s nor any other agency has actually done this, after all it is pretty hard to feed a specific &ldquo;cohesion&rdquo; number into any model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/0306069c-fbb4-11de-9c29-00144feab49a.html\">Keep reading at FT &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/funding-and-the-patriotism-test-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/euro-bankers-fly-in-to-fight-for-flailing-greece-2010-1\">Euro Bankers Fly To Greece For Dramatic Emergency Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jim-rogers-jim-chanos-couldnt-spell-china-10-years-ago-2010-1\">Jim Rogers: Jim Chanos Couldn&#8217;t Spell &#8216;China&#8217; 10 Years Ago<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-how-europe-would-collapse-into-financial-crisis-2010-1\">Look How Quickly Schizophrenic Markets Lost Faith In The Euro System <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/9Yd-Aiya3sM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months, some of the brightest minds at Moody&rsquo;s rating agency have been mulling a fascinating question: should they introduce a formal rating of &ldquo;social cohesion&rdquo; into sovereign debt indices, when they judge whether a government is likely to default on its debt &ndash; or not? So far, neither Moody&rsquo;s nor any other agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}