{"id":83083,"date":"2009-12-15T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/abu-dhabi-making-out-like-bandits-over-the-dubai-crisis-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-15T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T13:12:00","slug":"abu-dhabi-will-use-its-bailout-to-crush-dubais-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/83083","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Will Use Its Bailout To Crush Dubai&#8217;s Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai has a ridiculously weak bargaining position against Abu Dhabi right now, given that Dubai is essentially dead in the water without Abu Dhabi&#8217;s liquidity.<\/p>\n<p>This might not just be money between friends.<\/p>\n<p>Expect Abu Dhabi to get their money&#8217;s worth, given that they can extract pretty much whatever concession they want in the end &#8212; even perhaps stealing Dubai&#8217;s financial hub status.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 1:00.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;They wanted Dubai to sweat&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I think they are going to get their pound of flesh&#8230; it might be ownership of Emirates Airlines, inheriting the mantle of regional financial services, Abu Dhabi I think is going to be the big winner here.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;They&#8217;re playing their cards pretty well to take what they want.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Will Abu Dhabi take over [Dubai&#8217;s] role?&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I think they well&#8230; it&#8217;s something they&#8217;ve been aspiring to do&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<object id=\"cnbcplayer\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"380\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\"><param name=\"type\" value=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/plus.cnbc.com\/rssvideosearch\/action\/player\/id\/1359150261\/code\/cnbcplayershare\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/plus.cnbc.com\/rssvideosearch\/action\/player\/id\/1359150261\/code\/cnbcplayershare\" name=\"cnbcplayer\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" quality=\"best\" wmode=\"transparent\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"lt\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/abu-dhabi-making-out-like-bandits-over-the-dubai-crisis-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\/dubais-overbuilt-hotels-make-vegas-look-healthy-2009-12\">Dubai&#8217;s Overbuilt Hotels Make Vegas Look Healthy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-terrifying-lack-of-transparency-in-the-dubai-bailout-2009-12\"> The Terrifying Lack Of Transparency In The Dubai Bailout<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/full-statement-from-dubai-sheikh-on-bailout-from-abu-dhabi-2009-12\">Dubai Sheikh: Our Best Days Are Yet To Come!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/wosRN6IpXGs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai has a ridiculously weak bargaining position against Abu Dhabi right now, given that Dubai is essentially dead in the water without Abu Dhabi&#8217;s liquidity. This might not just be money between friends. Expect Abu Dhabi to get their money&#8217;s worth, given that they can extract pretty much whatever concession they want in the end [&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-83083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83083","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=83083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}