{"id":60642,"date":"2016-10-19T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60642"},"modified":"2016-10-19T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T18:18:44","slug":"spanish-bonds-on-the-costa-brava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60642","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Bonds On The Costa Brava"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, when I worked at a radio station whose initial rhymed with “Ay Ess Tee Pee”, we went without a general manager for six months.<\/p>\n

In that time the station’s ratings doubled.<\/p>\n

Eventually, in their good time, Hubbard Broadcasting sent us a GM. \u00a0Who promptly screwed everything up, where it stayed until the dawn of Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that kind of thing happens all the time with businesses.<\/p>\n

But it certainly is associated with civilized people who observe the law, in regard to “government”.<\/p>\n

Spain, after the better part of a decade of stagnancy in squalor under a socialist government, is bouncing back strongl<\/a>y:<\/p>\n

The eurozone\u2019s fourth-largest economy is on track to expand around 3% this year, outpacing the International Monetary Fund\u2019s projections for France, Germany and the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The landed punditry believes that is inconsistent with the fact \u00a0Spain hasn’t had a functioning \u00a0government in nearly a year:<\/p>\n

Spain has been without a full-fledged government since December. Doubts about who will form the next one have persisted since the divided parliament elected that month failed to install a prime minister and was dissolved. A new parliament, elected in June, is also deadlocked among four major parties, none close to a majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is \u2013 to borrow a phrase that the Obama administration has turned into a national punchline it \u2013 “unexpected”.<\/p>\n

But only if you’re the kind of person that believes “Brexit”\u00a0is going to send the UK back to the Stone Age, and that raising taxes fight recessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, when I worked at a radio station whose initial rhymed with “Ay Ess Tee Pee”, we went without a general manager for six months. In that time the station’s ratings doubled. Eventually, in their good time, Hubbard Broadcasting sent us a GM. \u00a0Who promptly screwed everything up, where it stayed until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60654,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60642\/revisions\/60654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}