{"id":311342,"date":"2010-02-12T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/germans-cant-get-tough-on-greece-because-they-have-a-massive-guilt-complex-from-the-past-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-12T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:22:00","slug":"germans-cant-get-tough-on-greece-because-they-have-a-massive-guilt-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/311342","title":{"rendered":"Germans Can&#8217;t Get Tough On Greece Because They Have A Massive Guilt Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b753a3b00000000004a41a0-400-\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ntweetmeme_source = 'moneygame'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s an interesting historical reason why it might be tough for Germany to play hardball with Greece&nbsp; &#8212; German-imposed Greek austerity has a charged past:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,777595,00.html\">Marginal Revolution:<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the first year of the German occupation of Greece, austerity and &#8220;wage cuts&#8221; were imposed on the economy; at least 300,000 Greeks died of hunger. &#8230;  The IMF, on the other hand, can&#8217;t override EU strictures on currency policy and on fiscal policy.  Who then will play tough guy with Greece?<\/p>\n<p>France? Doubtful. Greece could get off relatively easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/germans-cant-get-tough-on-greece-because-they-have-a-massive-guilt-complex-from-the-past-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/yt3IHNiYtg8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting historical reason why it might be tough for Germany to play hardball with Greece&nbsp; &#8212; German-imposed Greek austerity has a charged past: Marginal Revolution:&nbsp; In the first year of the German occupation of Greece, austerity and &#8220;wage cuts&#8221; were imposed on the economy; at least 300,000 Greeks died of hunger. &#8230; The [&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-311342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311342","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=311342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}