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Sovereign debt junky. Ph.D. In Physics, 21-year Wall Street veteran. Author of Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring.

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Gregory Makoff

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On April 17, I attended a pre-trial hearing in the courtroom of Federal District Judge Jesse Furman in lower Manhattan. The case — United States of America v. Amit Forlit — accuses Forlit of running a massive...

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The order to Jamie Dimon and other American bank heads from Donald Trump was stark: Cap the fees you charge on Americans’ $1.23 trillion of credit card debt at 10% within two weeks—or else.

While floated on the c...

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Decoding Venezuela: Is Trump’s Intervention about People, Bonds, or Oil?

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If you think about the politics, consider this: oil extraction in Venezuela is a fraction of the United States’ and relevant to only a handful of companies whose votes Trump didn’t need to buy.

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