{"id":2671,"date":"2011-12-17T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2011-12-17T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T21:02:16","slug":"what-would-margaret-thatcher-do-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/17\/what-would-margaret-thatcher-do-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would Margaret Thatcher Do? &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his speech resigning from the cabinet in 1990, by which he toppled Mrs. Thatcher as Conservative Party leader and prime minister, her former close ally Geoffrey Howe accused her, in her obsession with preserving the British nation-state, of living &#8220;in a ghetto of sentimentality about our past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It does not look quite like that now. Indeed, it was Mrs. Thatcher herself, a couple of years after she left office, who identified the problem with European construction. 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