{"id":74255,"date":"2015-09-10T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T03:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74255"},"modified":"2015-09-10T19:40:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T03:40:41","slug":"nyt-as-a-boom-fades-brazilians-wonder-how-it-all-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74255","title":{"rendered":"NYT: As a Boom Fades, Brazilians Wonder How It All Went Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/11\/world\/americas\/brazils-economic-crisis-intensifies-raising-pressure-on-president.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a>: &#8220;Highlighting the strain, Standard &#038; Poor\u2019s downgraded Brazil\u2019s credit rating to junk status on Wednesday, igniting a broad sell-off of Brazilian financial assets on Thursday. The blow is expected to increase Brazil\u2019s borrowing costs while focusing even more scrutiny on the government\u2019s inability to rein in public spending.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.photius.com\/rankings\/national_iq_scores_country_ranks.html\">average IQ in Brazil is 87<\/a>, just two points above American blacks, so of course it is going to be a basketcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times: &#8220;Highlighting the strain, Standard &#038; Poor\u2019s downgraded Brazil\u2019s credit rating to junk status on Wednesday, igniting a broad sell-off of Brazilian financial assets on Thursday. The blow is expected to increase Brazil\u2019s borrowing costs while focusing even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74257,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255\/revisions\/74257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}