Distressed Debt Specialists: Vultures Hovering Over Puerto Rico
The Guardian

Billionaire “vulture funds” managers have called on Puerto Rico to increase taxes, sell $4 billion worth of public buildings and drastically cut public spending, particularly on education, in order to pay the debt they have purchased. These “distressed debt” specialists hired former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economists to produce a “typically IMF recipe for radical austerity”, rejecting any attempts to restructure the poor island nation’s $72 billion debt.
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