{"id":4188,"date":"2011-09-19T08:21:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2011-09-19T08:21:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:21:35","slug":"us-treasury-secretarys-debt-advice-to-europe-generates-some-blowback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4188","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury Secretary&#8217;s Debt Advice to Europe Generates Some Blowback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/6006de50-e061-11e0-ba12-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YH9tfHEZ\">Joshua Chaffin and Alex Barker in Wroclaw and Kerin Hope in Athens:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>However, some eurozone finance ministers hit back at Mr Geithner\u2019s comments, questioning the usefulness of his visit.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cI found it peculiar that even though the Americans have significantly worse fundamental data than the eurozone, that they tell us what we should do and when we make a suggestion &#8230; that they say no straight away,\u201d said Maria Fekter, Austria\u2019s finance minister.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSweden\u2019s Anders Borg said: \u201cwe need to make progress, but it\u2019s quite clear the US has a big debt problem and the situation would be better if the US could show a sustainable way forward.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Chaffin and Alex Barker in Wroclaw and Kerin Hope in Athens: However, some eurozone finance ministers hit back at Mr Geithner\u2019s comments, questioning the usefulness of his visit. \u201cI found it peculiar that even though the Americans have significantly worse fundamental data than the eurozone, that they tell us what we should do and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,35,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}