We've no idea what the editorial bias of the Business Insider is (The title alone indicates bias will be somewhere along the drooling glibertarian broadsheet/not-overtly-fascist investment guide axis.) but they've compiled lists of nations that could be in deep water soon, & we don't mean Oceania.
Rather irksome there's no straight-up list we could copy & reproduce, so click if you care; we note that the last three of the 11 that could go (At any moment!) struck us as, well, non-Muslim, first, & second (esp. economic powerhouse China, holder of debt & ruler of all it surveys, at least per recent folklore) not that likely to go under from an uprising. Not that we've been devoting much thought to the stability of the Vietnamese gov't. lately. (Speaking of which, what's up in Laos? The other nations of S.E. Asia have been turmoiled & tumultuous recently, but not a peep from that landlocked zone.) On a brighter note, Venezuela is the only at-risk country in this hemisphere.
Moving on not to whatever vague will-they-follow-in-Egypt-&-Tunisia's-footsteps criteria were used for the Hot Eleven, but something based on nos. & such, The 25 Countries Whose Governments Could Get Crushed By Food Price Inflation.
Not shortages, but inflation alone.
Venezuela & the Dominican Republic the only New World nations. (Poor Haiti doesn't have enough of a gov't. to qualify?) Factoid: Issued before recent events; Tunisia was ranked only 18th, & Egypt sixth. Also ready to blow: Former S.S.R.s & Eastern Bloc nations, & Hong Kong? Huh? Really? Can't wait to see that. Burn, baby, burn!
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