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To: C19fan

The two bonds traded at $.28 on the dollar earlier this week.

I wonder who owns a lot of this debt?

A quick history lesson. At the demise of the USSR, Russia assumed all the of the debt. Very little was paid off but what they did pay, bought a lot of influence.


4 posted on 08/16/2018 5:44:15 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

At this point vulture investors hoping to seize overseas assets. Or is Chelsea Clinton’s loser husband back in the business of gambling with junk sovereign debt?


7 posted on 08/16/2018 5:45:37 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: PeterPrinciple
The two bonds traded at $.28 on the dollar earlier this week.

That seems a bit more than they are worth.

10 posted on 08/16/2018 6:26:29 AM PDT by PAR35
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