{"id":3020,"date":"2012-05-20T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2012-05-20T11:37:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T15:37:40","slug":"funny-graph-about-the-eurozone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3020","title":{"rendered":"Funny graph about the Eurozone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of a Google+ friend, I stumbled across this graph, originally from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/05\/the-funniest-graph-ive-ever-seen-about-why-the-euro-is-totally-doomed\/256793\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/05\/the-funniest-graph-ive-ever-seen-about-why-the-euro-is-totally-doomed\/256793\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3021\" title=\"eurozone\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/eurozone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/eurozone.png 615w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/eurozone-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What this graph demonstrates is quite simple. Take any random collection of nations. Former member states of the Soviet Union. All the countries along the 5th parallel. Members of a reconstituted Ottoman Empire. Or even countries beginning with the letter &#8220;M&#8221;. In all cases, the countries you pick turn out to be socioeconomically less diverse (i.e., they have more in common) than the major member states of the European Monetary Union.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it really makes the Eurozone doomed, but it certainly shows that holding it together will be quite a challenge.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3020' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of a Google+ friend, I stumbled across this graph, originally from The Atlantic: What this graph demonstrates is quite simple. Take any random collection of nations. Former member states of the Soviet Union. All the countries along the 5th parallel. Members of a reconstituted Ottoman Empire. Or even countries beginning with the letter &#8220;M&#8221;. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3020' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}