{"id":466767,"date":"2010-03-24T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:20:14","slug":"iraq-debt-almost-as-safe-as-california%e2%80%99s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466767","title":{"rendered":"Iraq debt almost as safe as California\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow (from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2010\/03\/21\/gambling_on_iraqs_slow_rise_from_ruin\/?page=3\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/em>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Iraq is now considered a safer bet than Argentina, Venezuela, Pakistan, and Dubai \u2014 and is nearly on par with the State of California, according to Bloomberg statistics on credit default swaps, which are considered a raw indicator of default risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared to California, I\u2019d rather bet on Iraq,\u2019\u2019 Daher said. \u201cIraq is a country where there are still bombs going off and people getting murdered, but they are less indebted than the United States. California is likely to have more demands on its resources, and there is no miracle where California is going to have more revenue coming out of the sky. Iraq has prospects for tremendously higher revenues, if they can manage to get their act halfway together, which they seem to be doing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow (from the Boston Globe): Iraq is now considered a safer bet than Argentina, Venezuela, Pakistan, and Dubai \u2014 and is nearly on par with the State of California, according to Bloomberg statistics on credit default swaps, which are considered a raw indicator of default risk. \u201cCompared to California, I\u2019d rather bet on Iraq,\u2019\u2019 Daher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466767","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\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}