{"id":2275,"date":"2009-03-03T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2009-03-02T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T04:34:15","slug":"signs-of-the-coming-upheaval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Coming Upheaval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/02\/business\/02aigweb.html\">Andrew Ross Sorkin and Mary Williams Walsh in the <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/02\/business\/02aigweb.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The loss that A.I.G. is preparing to report on Monday would be the largest ever by any company in a single quarter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/01\/opinion\/01friedman.html\">Tom Friedman quoting Ian Bremmer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As we look at 2009, on every issue, with the single exception of Iraq, everything is worse&#8230;Pakistan is worse. Afghanistan is worse. Russia is worse. Emerging markets are worse. Everything big out there is worse, and some will be made even worse by the economic crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is a geopolitical storm coming, concluded Bremmer, \u201cand it is not priced into the market yet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/7915372.stm\">Tim Bowler of the BBC reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest challenge facing China is not slowing growth but unemployment, which could trigger social unrest, a Chinese government minister has said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Ross Sorkin and Mary Williams Walsh in the New York Times: The loss that A.I.G. is preparing to report on Monday would be the largest ever by any company in a single quarter. Tom Friedman quoting Ian Bremmer: &#8220;As we look at 2009, on every issue, with the single exception of Iraq, everything is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1311,1032,3,4,458],"tags":[1466,1464,416,1467,1465,148,1468,228],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-financial-crisis-economics","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-aig","tag-andrew-ross-sorkin","tag-bbc","tag-ian-bremmer","tag-mary-williams-walsh","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tim-bowler","tag-tom-friedman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-AH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}