Puerto Rico’s Debt Portent

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Author(s) The Wall Street Journal editorial board
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date May 2, 2016
URL http://www.wsj.com/articles/puerto-ricos-debt-portent-1462231019
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Quotes-start.png An earlier House Natural Resources Committee proposal stalled after some Republicans carped that allowing Puerto Rico to write down its debt is tantamount to a bailout. But doing nothing, as some have proposed, will result in anarchy and a back-door bailout as tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans flee to the mainland where they will land on the U.S. public dole. Quotes-end.png


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