{"id":52407,"date":"2019-03-27T10:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=52407"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:12:43","slug":"eurozone-sinkhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/eurozone-sinkhole\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone &#8211; Sinkhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurozone financial condition has been in a state of disarray for some time. It is apparent to everyone watching that the ECB and the financial authorities didn&#8217;t do much to really put in place a plan to build a better foundation underlying the banks after the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>What they did was throw money at the situation, reduce rates and hope that it would somehow cure itself. For a while, it seemed that there was a chance, albeit slim. Now that there is evidence that the global slowdown is hitting Europe hard, there is not much more left to keep a lid on the problems that lie underneath. That will eventually open up like a giant sinkhole and suck down the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>A few charts that are of interest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52408\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro4_2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro4_2019.jpg 568w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro4_2019-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro4_2019-405x240.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52409\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro3_m2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro3_m2019.jpg 565w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro3_m2019-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro3_m2019-440x264.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52410\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro2_m2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro2_m2019.jpg 568w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro2_m2019-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/euro2_m2019-440x264.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52411\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Euro1_m2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Euro1_m2019.jpg 578w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Euro1_m2019-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurozone financial condition has been in a state of disarray for some time. It is apparent to everyone watching that the ECB and the financial authorities didn&#8217;t do much to really put in place a plan to build a better foundation underlying the banks after the financial crisis. What they did was throw money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogandupdates","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}