{"id":38299,"date":"2013-09-27T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=38299"},"modified":"2013-09-27T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T16:35:37","slug":"soros-adviser-turned-lawmaker-sees-crisis-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2013\/soros-adviser-turned-lawmaker-sees-crisis-by-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"Soros Adviser Turned Lawmaker Sees Crisis by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Takeshi Fujimaki, a former adviser to billionaire George Soros and now a member of Japan\u2019s upper house of parliament, said a fiscal crisis in Asia\u2019s second-biggest economy is inevitable and neither a higher sales tax nor the 2020 Olympics will be able to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to become a politician because I think financial crisis will come sooner or later,\u201d Fujimaki said in a Sept. 24 interview in Tokyo. \u201cThis total debt will continue to increase. I don\u2019t think Japan can survive until 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-09-27\/soros-adviser-turned-lawmaker-sees-crisis-by-2020-japan-credit.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Takeshi Fujimaki, a former adviser to billionaire George Soros and now a member of Japan\u2019s upper house of parliament, said a fiscal crisis in Asia\u2019s second-biggest economy is inevitable and neither a higher sales tax nor the 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38300,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38299\/revisions\/38300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}