{"id":4078,"date":"2010-04-28T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2010-04-28T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T05:41:00","slug":"interesting-the-cohesion-crisis-paul-krugman-blog-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/28\/interesting-the-cohesion-crisis-paul-krugman-blog-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting :: :: The Cohesion Crisis &#8211; Paul Krugman Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny Sentence.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Enough with the PIIGS, a totally unhelpful acronym. What we\u2019re really seeing now is a crisis of the \u201ccohesion countries\u201d \u2014 the countries that entered the EU relatively poor, and for a time received substantial aid in the form of \u201ccohesion funds\u201d.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong> In Eurospeak, it\u2019s important to know the difference between cohesion and convergence: cohesion means convergence in per capita GDP, while convergence means getting inflation rates in line so that monetary cohesion is possible. Get it?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/the-cohesion-crisis\/\">The Cohesion Crisis &#8211; Paul Krugman Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny Sentence. Enough with the PIIGS, a totally unhelpful acronym. What we\u2019re really seeing now is a crisis of the \u201ccohesion countries\u201d \u2014 the countries that entered the EU relatively poor, and for a time received substantial aid in the form of \u201ccohesion funds\u201d. In Eurospeak, it\u2019s important to know the difference between cohesion and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/28\/interesting-the-cohesion-crisis-paul-krugman-blog-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interesting :: :: The Cohesion Crisis &#8211; Paul Krugman Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-sentence","category-funny","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}