{"id":277521,"date":"2010-02-04T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-15-countries-at-the-greatest-risk-of-default-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-04T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:56:00","slug":"everyones-freaking-out-about-sovereign-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277521","title":{"rendered":"EVERYONE&#8217;S FREAKING OUT ABOUT SOVEREIGN DEBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-15-countries-at-the-greatest-risk-of-default-2010-2\/bulgarias-cds-spread-2416-bps-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b6af55b000000000014fcec-320-240\/romania.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"romania\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve been talking about sovereign debt for a long time now, but it feels like we&#8217;re tipping over today, and that the very real matter of countries defaulting on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/debt\">debt<\/a> is starting to get serious attention.<\/p>\n<p>So as a quick review, let&#8217;s run through the countries with the 15 most costly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/credit-default-swaps\">credit default swaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(For a quick refresher: If a country&#8217;s CDS spread is 500 bps, then you&#8217;re paying 5% premiums to insure your debt. Or to put it another way, if you have $1 million in debt, you can insure it for $50,000)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-15-countries-at-the-greatest-risk-of-default-2010-2\/bulgarias-cds-spread-2416-bps-1\">See the countries with the most risk -&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-15-countries-at-the-greatest-risk-of-default-2010-2#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\/leaked-eu-report-warns-of-risky-euros-threat-to-union-2010-1\">EU Privately Freaking Out About Greece And The PIIGS Breaking Apart The Union<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/by-standing-behind-greece-europe-just-made-portugal-the-sacrificial-piig-2010-2\">By Standing Behind Greece, Europe Just Made Portugal The New Sacrificial PIIG<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rbs-says-no-double-dip-recession-happening-global-activity-accelerating-and-quantitative-easing-is-dead-2010-2\">RBS: There&#8217;s No Double Dip, Payrolls Are About To Rise, And A Fed Rate Hike Is Coming In Five Months<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/OSyurwzTeLw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been talking about sovereign debt for a long time now, but it feels like we&#8217;re tipping over today, and that the very real matter of countries defaulting on their debt is starting to get serious attention. So as a quick review, let&#8217;s run through the countries with the 15 most costly credit default swaps. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277521","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=277521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}