Clauses & Controversies
By Mitu Gulati & Mark Weidemaier
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Clauses and Controversies: A Podcast about International Finance, Contract Clauses and the Controversies Surrounding These Clauses
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Ep 177 - Is it Finally Time to Restructure Venezuela’s Debt?
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Ep 176 - 1917 Tsarist Bonds
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Ep 175 - The Most Amazing Revolution
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May 18, 2026 |
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Ep 174 - Something Black in the Lentils
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May 11, 2026 |
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Ep 173 - Foreign Civil War Entanglements
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Ep 172 - If Only YPF’s Bylaws Had Been Governed by Texas Law
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Ep 171 - The $500 Million American “Financial Aid” to China
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Ep 170 - Ethiopia and Senegal: Debt Shenanigans?
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Ep 169 - Can We Say Anything Meaningful About a Venezuelan Debt Restructuring?
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Ep 168 - Are CACs Unilateral Modification Clauses?
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Ep 167 - Will the Flip Clause Enter the Canon?
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Ep 166 - Imperial (Defaulted) Chinese Bonds (Again)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Ep 165 - Total Return Swaps
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Ep 164 - Cambodia’s “Dirty Debts” to the US — Redux
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Ep 163 - What if POTUS wanted an OBBD?
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Ep 162 - The Invasion Tax
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Ep 161 - Argentina Again
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Ep 160 - Ukraine's Expansive "Fiscal Laws" Clause
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Ep 159 - The Greek GDP Warrant Drama
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Ep 158 - Some Questions, Now That it's About 3 Years Since Russia’s Default
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May 28, 2025 |
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Ep 157 - Sovereign Debt Odd & Ends
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May 12, 2025 |
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Ep 156 - Is There Any Law of State Succession? (ft. Paul Stephan)
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Ep 155 - What if Trump Discovers that Unpaid UK (and French) Debt From WWI?
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Ep 154 - What Might a Syrian Debt Restructuring (Eventually) Look Like?
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Ep 153 - User Fees on the US Treasury Strategic Gold Crypto Reserve
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Ep 152 - Why Do We Care Who is Behind HRB’s Sri Lankan Lawsuit?
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Ep 151 - Greece’s (Ratings) Rise – Wow, but also How? (ft. Sarah Carlson & Elena Duggar)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Ep 150 - Getting "J. Screwed" Sounds Better than Getting "Argentina'd" (ft. Andrew Kissner)
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Ep 149 - Is Sri Lanka’s Loss Reinstatement Provision a Penalty?
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Ep 148 - Sri Lanka's New MFC Clause — Have "Contorts" Arrived in Sovereign Debt?
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Ep 147 - YPF and Argentina’s Contributions to International Law (ft. Paul Stephan)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Ep 146 - The Penalty Doctrine in Contract Law
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Ep 145 - A New Competition For Law (and Jurisdiction)?
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Ep 144 - An Execution Sale is Not a Receivership. (Right?) (ft. Nate Oman)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Ep 143 - Hamilton Bank v. Sri Lanka: What the $@#$ ?
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Ep 142 - Zambia’s Restructuring: A Post-Mortem (ft. Theo Maret)
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Ep 141 - The Champerty Show
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Ep 140 - IMF Rescues Pakistan From the Brink of Default (Again) (ft. Zohra Ahmed)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Ep 139 - A Better Way to Freeze (and Seize?) Russian Assets? (ft. Oona Hathaway)
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Ep 138 - Cambodia’s Debts to the US: How “Dirty” Are They? (ft. Randle DeFalco)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Ep 137 - Ukraine's Preliminary Debt Restructuring Deal (ft. Joseph Cotterill)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Ep 136 - Tortious Interference and Inter-Creditor Duties (ft. Andrew Wilkinson)
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May 20, 2024 |
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Ep 135 - El Salvador’s Warrants: Bukele’s Folly? (ft. Ben Heller)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Ep 134 - The Latest in the Argentine GDP Warrant Saga: Drafting Goof or Sneaky Drafting?
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Ep 133 - Lessons from the 1980s Debt Crisis (ft. Jerome Sgard)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Ep 132 - A Way to Use Frozen Russian Assets to Help Ukraine? (ft. Ingrid Brunk & Paul Stephan)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Ep 131 - Ukrenergo Confusion
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Ep 130 - Who Benefits from Lifting Sanctions on Buying Venezuelan Bonds? (ft. Kejal Vyas)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Ep 129 - The Last Sovereign Bond in New York
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Ep 128 - Something Black in the Lentils at Ukrenegro (ft. Chris Spink)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Ep 127 - Back to the Future (Again) -- Russian Frozen Assets Episode (ft. Lauge Poulsen)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Ep 126 - Tierra del Fuego and Tinfoil Hats
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Ep 125 - Can Someone Explain What is Happening to SLBs?
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Ep 124 - Equity Receiverships and Sovereign Debt (ft. Nate Oman)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Ep 123 - How Much of the YPF Judgement Will Burford, Realistically, Recover?
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Ep 122 - Argentina's 2001 Debt Saga Revisited (ft. Greg Makoff)
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Ep 121 - What the FRAN? (ft. Ben Heller)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Ep 120 - What to Make of the Stay Order in Hamilton Reserve Bank v. Sri Lanka?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Ep 119 - China’s Defaulted War Debts (ft. Elya Zhang)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Ep 118 - China’s Impact on Sovereign Debt Restructurings (ft. Alexandra Zeitz & Lauren Ferry)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Ep 117 - Dodgy SLBs (ft. Priscila Azevedo Rocha & Todd Gillespie)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Ep 116 - Are sustainability-linked bonds here to stay? (ft. Kenza Bryan)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Ep 115 - Sovereign Sustainability Linked Bonds: What’s Going On? (ft. Ignacio Lagos)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Ep 114 - Venezuelan Debt (ft. Steven Bodzin)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Ep 113 - Chasing Payment on Old Cuban Debt (ft. Rebecca Burton)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Ep 112 - Argentine GDP Warrants (ft. Timothy Dodsworth, Maggie Hemsworth & Severine Saintier)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Ep 111 - Is a Diaspora Bond a Loan or a Gift? (ft. Dan Lainer-Vos)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Ep 110 - Hamilton Bank Redux
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Ep 109 - The New Not Normal (ft. Felix Salmon)
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May 01, 2023 |
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Ep 108 - In a Bad State (ft. David Schleicher)
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Ep 107 - Ukraine's Victory in the UK Supreme Court (ft. Nate Oman)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Ep 106 - Sri Lanka’s Litigation Risk: Yet Another Problem With the Slow Pace of Restructurings
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Ep 105 - Pakistan's Debt Distress (ft. Reza Baqir)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Ep 104 - Do Native American Tribes Pay Too Much to Borrow? (ft. Townsend Hyatt)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Ep 103 - Why is the Zambian Restructuring Dragging on So? (ft. Melissa Butler)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Ep 102 - The Long Shadow of Default (ft. David Gill)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Ep 101 - ESG investing (ft. Natasha White)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Ep 100 - Debt Ceiling Drama (ft. Wailin Wong)
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Ep 99 - Fault Lines in Sovereign Debt Restructuring (ft. Jorgelina do Rosario & Karin Strohecker)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Ep 98 - Ghana's Restructuring: Why the Mess? (ft. Chelsey Dulaney)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Ep 97 - Do Bondholders Care About Bankruptcy Access? (ft. Rich Schragger)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Ep 96 - Fear of Fund” and the Bridgetown Initiative (ft. Avinash Persaud)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Ep 95 - Bondholders Rights as a Function of Nationality Rather than Contract (ft. Livia Hinz)
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Ep 94 - The Bond King (ft. Mary Childs)
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Ep 93 - Lessons from the U.S. Municipal Bond Cases? (ft. Vincent Buccola)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Ep 92 - Ghana’s 2030 FUD Bond
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Ep 91 - A Truly Gnarly Year (ft. Sydney Maki)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Ep 90 - Please Sir, May I Read the Contract?
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Ep 89 - Pakistan’s Bizarro 2024 Bond
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Ep 88 - Contracting for Home Field Advantage (ft. John Coyle)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Ep 87 - Ukraine’s Dodgy Designations
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Ep 86 - Why Did the Dog Not Bark? (or Why Did the Creditors Consent So Readily?)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Ep 85 - Making (Non?)Sense of the Russian CDS Auction (ft. Chris Spink)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Ep 84 - Diaspora Bonds (ft. Steven Tepper)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Ep 83 - It’s a Mad, Mad World (ft. Nikou Asgari)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Ep 82 - Is the Bottom Falling Out of the EM Sovereign Debt Market? (ft. Alexandra Scaggs)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Ep 81 - The New, New Syndicated Lending (ft. Chelsey Dulaney)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Ep 80 - The Louisiana Purchase and the Origins of the Sovereign Bond Market (ft. Larry Neal)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Ep 79 - What will the Price of Peace with Putin be? (ft. Zach Carter)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Ep 78 - Has There Really Been a Russian Default?
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Ep 77 - What's With the Lawsuit Against Sri Lanka?
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Ep 76 - Argentina’s Never-Ending GDP Warrant Saga (ft. Vladimir Werning)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Ep 75 - Reps for Repaying Debts: Overstated? (ft. Paolo Manasse, Matilde Faralli & Ugo Panizza)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Ep 74 - Gunboats, Marines and Bonds: The Ugly US Occupation of Haiti 1915-34 (ft. Laurent Dubois)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Ep 73 - The Unprecedented and Odious Haitian Independence Debt (ft. Marlene Daut)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Ep 72 - Can Borrowing Costs for Tribes be Reduced? (ft. Kevin Washburn)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Ep 71 - Sri Lanka, SriLankan Airlines, and...
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Ep 70 - How to Destroy the Collective Action Clause?
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Ep 69 - Why do Tribal Casinos Pay So Much to Borrow? (ft. David Jordan)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Ep 68 - The Legal Weeds of Sri Lanka's International Bonds (ft. Andres de la Cruz)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Ep 67 - Ukraine-Russia: Who Should Have Priority to Get at Frozen Russian Assets?
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Ep 66 - Initiatives to Improve Sovereign Debt Markets (ft. Deborah Zandstra)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Ep 65 - Russia-Ukraine Emergency Podcast 2: Subversive Drafting or Goofs
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Ep 64 - Is Russian Sovereign Debt Now Worthless?
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Ep 63 - Sri Lanka on the Brink? (ft. Trang Nguyen)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Ep 62 - Is There a Plan for Dealing with the Sri Lankan Debt? (ft. Benjamin Parkin)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Ep 61 - Should we worry about increasing global (and US) debt? (ft. John Cochrane)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Ep 60 - What's going on with Venezuela? (Blue Bonds) (ft. Steven Bodzin & Carla Dager)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Ep 59 - The Environmental Benefits of the Belize Restructuring (ft. Jill Dauchy)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Ep 58 - The History Behind Lawsuits Over Old Chinese and Russian Sovereign Debt (ft. Elya Zhang)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Ep 57 - From Russia With ... Well, Frankly, A Bit of Concern (ft. Paul Stephan)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Ep 56 - From Commercial Bank Loans to Blue Bonds (ft. Antonia Stolper)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Ep 55 - Does Haiti Have a Legal Right to Compensation from France? (ft. Gunther Handl)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Ep 54 - The Domestic Costs of Imposing Capital Controls (ft. Stephen Nelson)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Ep 53 - What Exactly is the Duty of Good Faith? (ft. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan and David Hoffman)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Ep 52 - The Province of Buenos Aires' Restructuring (ft. Scott Squires)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Ep 51 - Restricting Trading in Venezuela’s Sovereign Bonds (ft. Thomas Laryea)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Ep 50 - What Do We Know About International Investment? (ft. Rachel Wellhausen)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Ep 49 - Financial Contract Design (ft. Lachlan Burn & Jeffrey Golden)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Ep 48 - Local v. Foreign Bonds? (ft. Layna Mosley)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Ep 47 - The Greek Restructuring of 2012 – Filling in the Gaps (ft. Andrew Shutter)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Ep 46 - (Why) Are ESG Sovereign Bonds (Such) Scams?
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Ep 45 - ESG Scores (ft. Lupin Rahman)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Ep 44 - What Does it Mean to Say the Treasury Market is Risk Free? (ft. Yesha Yadav)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Ep 43 - The Sovereign Debt Acronym Show (ft. Aitor Erce)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Ep 42 - Did External Finance Produce Weaker States? (ft. Didac Queralt)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Ep 41 - How do Investors in Sovereign Bonds Fare? (ft. Josefin Meyer)
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Ep 40 - Veil Piercing and State-Owned Entities (ft. Anna Gelpern)
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May 24, 2021 |
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Ep 39 - Covid is Just Like the _______ Crisis (ft. Juan Flores Zendejas)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Ep 38 - Can Courts Help Right Historical Wrongs? (ft. Matthias Goldmann)
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May 10, 2021 |
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Ep 37 - How China Lends (ft. Anna Gelpern & Christoph Trebesch)
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May 03, 2021 |
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Ep 36 - Euro Area Sovereign Debt (ft. Anne-Laure Delatte)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Ep 35 - Bendy Bonds Are Better (Say it Five Times Fast) (ft. Ben Heller)
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Ep 34 - Recent Sovereign Debt Drama (ft. Lee Buchheit)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Ep 33 - Green Bonds for Everyone! (ft. Matt Wirz)
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Ep 32 - Central Banks, Executive Power, and Protecting Sovereign Assets (ft. Ingrid Wuerth)
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Ep 31 - Value Recovery Instruments: A Contrarian View (ft. Mark Stumpf)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Ep 30 - Post-Colonial Odious Debt (ft. Gregoire Mallard)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Ep 29 - The Back Story of Iraq’s Debt Restructuring (ft. Simon Hinrichsen)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Ep 28 - What Does the U.S. Owe Haiti for La Navasse? (ft. Jacqueline Charles & Guy-Uriel Charles)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Ep 27 - Zambia's Default and Restructuring Prospects (ft. Tommy Stubbington)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Ep 26 - What Motivates China's Overseas Lending? (ft. Pippa Morgan)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Ep 25 - Do Investors Care About Odious Debts? (ft. Kim Oosterlinck)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Ep 24 - Haiti’s Odious "Independence Debt" (ft. Julia Rudolph)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Ep 23 - Covid (and Other) Contingencies (ft. Lee Buchheit, Joyce Chang, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Ep 22 - Restructuring Uncle Sam's Debt (ft. Julia Mahoney & Ed Kitch)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Ep 21 - Best Crisis Management in HISTORY! (ft. Felix Salmon)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Ep 20 - Trees. Wrong. Barking Up. (ft. Jeromin Zettelmeyer)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Ep 19 - A View From the Sell Side (ft. Siobhan Morden)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Ep 18 - Why Not Use GDP-Linked Bonds? (ft. Yannis Manuelides)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Ep 17 - Judgments 1, CACs 0 (ft. Andy Hessick)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Ep 16 - Will Asking For Covid Assistance Cause a Ratings Downgrade? (ft. Elena Duggar)
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Ep 15 - Pricing Those Pesky CACs (ft. Elena Carletti, Paolo Colla & Steven Ongena)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Ep 14 - What Lies Ahead? (ft. Robin Wigglesworth)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Ep 13 - What's Your Damage?
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Ep 12 - What if we hit Another Sudden Stop? (ft. Patrick Bolton and Ugo Panizza)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Ep 11 - This Episode Will Become Void in 3...2...1
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Ep 10 - State Guarantees That Bite One in the Backside (ft. Joseph Cotterill)
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Ep 9 - Contracting for Disaster(s) (ft. Jim Ho)
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Ep 8 - The Sovereign Debt Seating Chart Needs Bigger Chairs (ft. Anna Szymanski)
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Ep 7 - Would you rather date Ecuador or Argentina? (ft. Colby Smith)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Ep 6 - How Did We Get the Crappy CAC? (ft. Anna Gelpern)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Ep 5 - Why all the Sturm and Drang Over Force Majuere? (ft. Eric Posner)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Ep 4 - Where Did All the Secured Loans Go? (ft. Noel Maurer)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Ep 3 - Gold Clause Mumbo Jumbo (ft. Gerard Magliocca)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Ep 2 - Imperial Chinese Bonds (ft. Tracy Alloway, Lee Buchheit, Alex Xiao)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Ep 1 - Venezuela’s Oil Company is Up For Grabs
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Aug 17, 2020 |