{"id":109880,"date":"2019-08-14T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-recession-in-hong-kong-is-inevitable-says-economist\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T07:03:42","slug":"a-recession-in-hong-kong-is-inevitable-says-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-recession-in-hong-kong-is-inevitable-says-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"A recession in Hong Kong is &#039;inevitable,&#039; says economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAndy Xie, an independent economist, says Hong Kong&#8217;s business people have political power and are &#8220;running the place,&#8221; and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s &#8220;causing the trouble&#8221; in the city.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : cnbc.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2019\/08\/14\/a-recession-in-hong-kong-is-inevitable-says-economist.html\" target=\"_blank\">A recession in Hong Kong is &#8216;inevitable,&#8217; says economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Andy Xie, an independent economist, says Hong Kong&#8217;s business people have political power and are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-sAg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111820,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kongs-leaders-need-to-do-something-radical-economist\/","url_meta":{"origin":109880,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong&#039;s leaders need to do &#039;something radical&#039;: Economist","date":"October 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Beijing will embrace \"symbolic change\" in Hong Kong, but that won't help much, says Andy Xie, an independent economist. 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