{"id":7,"date":"2010-05-06T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jepheverett.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/06\/an-alternative-to-a-tumultuous-market"},"modified":"2010-05-06T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T20:43:50","slug":"an-alternative-to-a-tumultuous-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"An alternative to a tumultuous market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!BF81E790B6A7BF39!5624\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<p>I\u2019ve been following a trend know as microfinance or microloans for a few years now, and I\u2019m really excited to see that some online marketplaces for it are getting established.<\/p>\n<p>The concept is simple- instead of investing huge amounts in huge multinationals, invest smaller amounts in microloans the 3rd world, where traditional means of finance are typically unavailable.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be getting fairly low returns, from 1-3%, but data to date suggests that microloans have extraordinarily low default rates.\u00a0 Certainly no once can argue against a little portfolio diversification these days, and I\u2019m hoping no one will argue against the mission.\u00a0 Take a look at: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\">http:\/\/www.kiva.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.microplace.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microplace.com\/\">https:\/\/www.microplace.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been following a trend know as microfinance or microloans for a few years now, and I\u2019m really excited to see that some online marketplaces for it are getting established. The concept is simple- instead of investing huge amounts in huge multinationals, invest smaller amounts in microloans the 3rd world, where traditional means of finance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/?p=7\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An alternative to a tumultuous market?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudagnost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}