{"id":695944,"date":"2010-03-19T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/maybe-we-should-sell-new-york-to-the-chinese-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-19T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:45:35","slug":"maybe-we-should-sell-new-york-to-the-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695944","title":{"rendered":"Maybe We Should Sell New York To The Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ba20ff17f8b9a5b09d70600-242-181\/manhattan-new-york-skyline.jpg?resize=242%2C181\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Manhattan New York Skyline\" width=\"242\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back, Germany proposed Greece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/germany-to-greece-cant-you-sell-us-some-of-your-islands-in-return-for-a-bailout-2010-3\">sell its unoccupied islands<\/a> to pay off its sovereign debt.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/194519-sovereign-debt-resolution-so-will-the-u-s-sell-manhattan?source=hp_wc\">Dave Lewis at Seeking Alpha<\/a> is taking the idea a step further, suggesting the U.S. should punt off New York to the Chinese to cover its sovereign debt explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The move would free up the U.S. financially and dump one of the biggest problems, the New York Fed, on the Chinese. <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/194519-sovereign-debt-resolution-so-will-the-u-s-sell-manhattan?source=hp_wc\">Lewis says<\/a>, with tongue firmly in cheek, that they wouldn&#8217;t take any of the corruption we do, when the government still uses capital punishment as a solution to that problem in China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/maybe-we-should-sell-new-york-to-the-chinese-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/you-think-europe-is-a-mess-united-states-has-its-own-piigs-2010-3\">You Think Europe Is A Mess? The United States Has Its Own Set Of PIIGS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-new-york-is-going-to-close-its-deficit-2010-3\">How Kids, Schools, Health, And Local Governments Will Get Slammed By New York&#8217;s New Budget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/keith-mccullough-is-china-selling-us-treasuries-2010-3\">Hedgeye&#8217;s Keith McCullough: Don&#8217;t Listen To What They&#8217;re Saying, OF COURSE China Is Selling US Treasuries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/oVSQoaPgBTA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, Germany proposed Greece sell its unoccupied islands to pay off its sovereign debt. Now Dave Lewis at Seeking Alpha is taking the idea a step further, suggesting the U.S. should punt off New York to the Chinese to cover its sovereign debt explosion. The move would free up the U.S. financially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2V2U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}