Thursday, July 2, 2015

Why The Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Is Such A Huge Threat To The U.S. Financial System

Via avordvet

 Puerto Rico Map On A Globe - Photo by TUBS

The debt crisis in Puerto Rico could potentially cost financial institutions in the United States tens of billions of dollars in losses.  This week, Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla publicly announced that Puerto Rico’s  73 billion dollar debt is “not payable,” and a special adviser that was recently appointed to help straighten out the island’s finances said that it is “insolvent” and will totally run out of cash very shortly.

At this point, Puerto Rico’s debt is approximately 15 times larger than the per capita median debt of the 50 U.S. states.  Yes, the Greek debt crisis is larger, as Greece currently owes about $350 billion to the rest of the planet.  But only about $14 billion of that total is owed to U.S. financial institutions.  But with Puerto Rico, things are very different.  Just about the entire 73 billion dollar debt is owed to U.S. financial institutions, and this could potentially cause massive problems for some extremely leveraged Wall Street firms.

4 comments:

  1. From 1961 - thank you for setting it all straight, Rita!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2k

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  2. Looks like the US gov, banks, and corporations owe Puerto Rico something,
    They raped their country:
    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Caribbean/Puerto_Rico-Uprising_1950.html

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