{"id":144200,"date":"2015-03-05T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=144200"},"modified":"2015-03-05T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:27:44","slug":"rothschild-warns-chaos-extremism-horrendous-problems-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/rothschild-warns-chaos-extremism-horrendous-problems-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rothschild warns of &#8216;chaos, extremism&#8217; and &#8216;horrendous&#8217; problems in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p>Jacob Rothschild, the 78 year-old banker and chairman of RIT Capital Partners, has delivered savers in the \u00a32.3bn trust a stark warning about global instability and the fragility of future returns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p>He used his chairman&#8217;s statement in the trust&#8217;s 2014 annual report to outline his concerns, saying that on top of a &#8220;difficult economic background&#8221; investors face &#8220;a geopolitical situation perhaps as dangerous as any we have faced since World War II&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>He said this was the result of &#8220;chaos and extremism in the Middle East, Russian aggression and expansion, and a weakened Europe threatened by horrendous unemployment, in no small measure caused by a failure to tackle structural reforms in many of the countries which form part of the European Union&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>This was a much gloomier assessment of the world than the picture painted in his statement a year ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>Then, he listed the major dangers as the slowdown in China&#8217;s growth and a possible over-valuation of shares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/investing\/funds\/11445631\/Lord-Rothschild-Investors-face-a-geopolitical-situation-as-dangerous-as-any-since-WW2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Rothschild, the 78 year-old banker and chairman of RIT Capital Partners, has delivered savers in the \u00a32.3bn trust a stark warning about global instability and the fragility of future returns. He used his chairman&#8217;s statement in the trust&#8217;s 2014 annual report to outline his concerns, saying that on top of a &#8220;difficult economic background&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-politics","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}