{"id":161529,"date":"2025-11-04T02:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/161529\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:28:12","slug":"thailands-household-debt-crisis-acts-as-brake-on-anemic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/161529\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s household debt crisis acts as brake on anemic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251031 Cash 4 car billboard\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">Billboards, like this one overlooking the expressway in Bangkok, advertise quick cash loans for up to 80% of a car&#8217;s estimated value as people seek easy ways to borrow or to service existing debt. (Photo by Dominic Faulder)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/asean-money\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASEAN Money<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">Analysts say chronic borrowing is a major factor in kingdom&#8217;s underperformance<\/p>\n<p>DOMINIC FAULDER<\/p>\n<p>November 4, 2025 06:00 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billboards, like this one overlooking the expressway in Bangkok, advertise quick cash loans for up to 80% of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[93623,93625,93624,79,20084,6046,179,18,7111,32774,19,17,29937],"class_list":{"0":"post-161529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-acts","9":"tag-anemic","10":"tag-brake","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-crisis","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-growth","17":"tag-household","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-thailands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115489073300420533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}