{"id":1980,"date":"2026-10-12T22:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2026-10-12T22:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:16:16","slug":"frogs-is-the-name-of-the-latest-eu-debt-crisis-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color: Red;\">Frogs<\/span> Is the Name of the Latest EU Debt Crisis (Bloomberg)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France is being singled out in the latest phase of eurozone debt anxiety with the acronym <span style=\"color: Red;\"><strong>FROGS<\/strong><\/span>, short for <span style=\"color: Red;\"><strong>French Oversized Government and Social Security<\/strong><\/span>.<br \/>\nThe label contrasts with the earlier <span style=\"color: RoyalBlue;\"><strong>PIIGS<\/strong><\/span> grouping of <span style=\"color: RoyalBlue;\"><strong>Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain<\/strong><\/span>, which became shorthand for the countries at the center of the region&#8217;s sovereign debt crisis. In this case, the focus is on France alone, underlining concern about the scale of its government spending and welfare commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France is being singled out in the latest phase of eurozone debt anxiety with the acronym FROGS, short for Fre [&hellip;]<\/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-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}