{"id":8629,"date":"2010-09-29T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=8629"},"modified":"2010-09-29T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T22:46:09","slug":"its-over-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=8629","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Over!  It&#8217;s Over!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/\">Instapundit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;WORLD WAR I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/first-world-war-ends\/\">NOW OFFICIALLY OVER:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On September 26, 2010 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 92 years after the WWI officially ended \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Germany made her last payment of $94 million in reparations \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to private individuals, pension funds and corporations holding debenture bonds as agreed under the Treaty of Versailles.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As Keynes rightly predicted, the unreasonably high French demands for financial reparations led to German economic weakness. The end result was hyperinflation, which was one of the principal causes of Hitler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rise to power and the start of the Second World War. In spite of losing two world wars, Germany did eventually become the most powerful nation in Europe \u00e2\u20ac\u201d through trade, capitalism and German ingenuity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With some help from a U.S. military umbrella.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n<p><!-- closing tags --> <!-- end closing tags --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Instapundit: &#8220;WORLD WAR I NOW OFFICIALLY OVER: On September 26, 2010 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 92 years after the WWI officially ended \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Germany made her last payment of $94 million in reparations \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to private individuals, pension funds and corporations holding debenture bonds as agreed under the Treaty of Versailles.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As Keynes rightly predicted, the unreasonably high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","category-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8632,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions\/8632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}