When Puerto Rico’s debt crisis ballooned into the largest governmental default in U.S. history, Congress stepped in with an unprecedented solution. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/APo9WbueZ4A/felix-salmon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Felix Salmon</a> is joined by <a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/dskeel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Skeel</a>, who served as chair on the oversight board that helped the island regain economic stability and detailed the saga of this debt crisis in his book <a href="https://www.pauldrybooks.com/products/promise-land-the-inside-story-of-the-puerto-rico-debt-crisis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Promise Land</a>. They discuss the ins and outs of government debt, the idea of state bankruptcy, and what lessons can be learned for future legislation. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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