{"id":98,"date":"2011-04-22T00:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-04-22T00:51:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T04:51:52","slug":"5-economic-collapses-more-ridiculous-than-the-financial-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/5-economic-collapses-more-ridiculous-than-the-financial-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Economic Collapses More Ridiculous Than The Financial Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/042211_0451_5economicco11.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the financial crisis, comedy website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\">Cracked<\/a> took a look at some of the more interesting economic meltdowns in history. Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18397_5-economic-collapses-more-ridiculous-than-this-one.html\">here<\/a>. Who knew that there could be a speculative bubble in tulips 400 years ago?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cracked notes:<\/p>\n<p><em>These days, with all the pundits preaching doom and the impending collapse of society into some kind of <\/em>Mad Max<em> style wasteland, it&#8217;s easy for us to imagine that the economy is as unhealthy as it&#8217;s ever been.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But any historian would give you a hard backhanded smack for even saying that out loud. History is full of economic idiocy, and here are five economic collapses that make 2010 feel like the Renaissance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18397_5-economic-collapses-more-ridiculous-than-this-one.html\">Cracked.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the financial crisis, comedy website Cracked took a look at some of the more interesting economic meltdowns in history. Read the article here. Who knew that there could be a speculative bubble in tulips 400 years ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}