{"id":72904,"date":"2009-12-09T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/top-10-international-catastrophes-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-09T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:25:00","slug":"10-looming-geopolitical-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/72904","title":{"rendered":"10 Looming Geopolitical Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/top-10-international-catastrophes-2009-12\/israel-attacks-iran-1\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b1fb1a200000000007174f3&amp;maxX=322&amp;maxY=241\" border=\"0\" alt=\"greece greek athens protest fight police battle riot\" width=\"322\" height=\"241\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<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>Here&#8217;s a friendly reminder on investing: pay attention to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, U.S. markets fell sharply when Moody&#8217;s cut its ratings on a host of Dubai government-controlled companies and after Fitch downgraded its credit rating on Greece (pictured) to BBB- from A-, highlighting &#8220;the weak credibility of fiscal institutions and the policy framework in Greece,&#8221; according to the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20091208-711572.html?mod=rss_Global_Stocks\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That &#8220;weak credibility&#8221; is all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order, we round up the ten economic time bombs whose explosion &#8212; some very possible in the next year &#8212; could have serious consequences for global markets.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/top-10-international-catastrophes-2009-12\/israel-attacks-iran-1\">SEE INTERNATIONAL DISASTERS WAITING TO HAPPEN&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/top-10-international-catastrophes-2009-12#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\/the-worlds-greatest-sovereign-risks-2009-12\">The 10 Countries Most Likely To Default<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-most-corrupt-developed-countries-2009-11\">The 10 Most Corrupt Countries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chinas-14-shaky-dominoes-2009-11\">China&#8217;s 14 Dominoes Of Destruction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Os0yA-9bqGs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a friendly reminder on investing: pay attention to the rest of the world. Just yesterday, U.S. markets fell sharply when Moody&#8217;s cut its ratings on a host of Dubai government-controlled companies and after Fitch downgraded its credit rating on Greece (pictured) to BBB- from A-, highlighting &#8220;the weak credibility of fiscal institutions and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72904","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}