{"id":6951,"date":"2015-03-30T05:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2015-03-30T05:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:27:18","slug":"recovery-geopolitics-and-detergents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6951","title":{"rendered":"Recovery, Geopolitics and Detergents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Recovery, Geopolitics and Detergents\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2015\/03\/recovery-geopolitics-and-detergents\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Recovery, Geopolitics and Detergents<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Increasingly over the past year or so, when people ask me what I do, and that happens a lot on a trip like the one I\u2019m currently on in the world of down under, I find myself not just stating the usual \u2018I write about finance and energy\u2019, but adding: \u2018it seems to become more and more about geopolitics too\u2019. And it\u2019s by no means just me: a large part of the \u2018alternative finance blogosphere\u2019, or whatever you wish to call it, is shifting towards that same orientation.<\/p>\n<p>Not that no-one ever wrote about geopolitics before, but it used to be far less prevalent. Much of that, I think, has to do with a growing feeling of discontent with the manner in which a number of topics are handled by the major media and the political world. Moreover, as would seem obvious, certain topics lay bare in very transparent ways how finance and geopolitics are intertwined.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, we\u2019ve seen the crash of the oil price, which will have \u2013 financial and political \u2013 effects in the future that dwarf what we\u2019ve seen thus far. We\u2019ve seen Europe and its banks stepping up their efforts to wrestle Greece into \u2013 financial and political \u2013 submission. And then there\u2019s the nigh unparalleled propaganda machine that envelops the Ukraine-Crimea-Russia issue, which has bankrupted the economy of the first and imposed heavy economic sanctions on the latter, for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovery, Geopolitics and Detergents Increasingly over the past year or so, when people ask me what I do, and that happens a lot on a trip like the one I\u2019m currently on in the world of down under, I find myself not just stating the usual \u2018I write about finance and energy\u2019, but adding: \u2018it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[63,124,179,244,281,1069,355,1167,694,821],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-banks","tag-central-banks","tag-crimea","tag-economics-2","tag-europe","tag-finance","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-greece","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6952,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions\/6952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}