All Episodes

Ep 82 - Is the Bottom Falling Out of the EM Sovereign Debt Market? (ft. Alexandra Scaggs)

Ep 81 - The New, New Syndicated Lending (ft. Chelsey Dulaney)

Ep 80 - The Louisiana Purchase and the Origins of the Sovereign Bond Market (ft. Larry Neal)

Ep 79 - What will the Price of Peace with Putin be? (ft. Zach Carter)

Ep 78 - Has There Really Been a Russian Default?

Ep 77 - What's With the Lawsuit Against Sri Lanka?

Ep 76 - Argentina’s Never-Ending GDP Warrant Saga (ft. Vladimir Werning)

Ep 75 - Reps for Repaying Debts: Overstated? (ft. Paolo Manasse, Matilde Faralli & Ugo Panizza)

Ep 74 - Gunboats, Marines and Bonds: The Ugly US Occupation of Haiti 1915-34 (ft. Laurent Dubois)

Ep 73 - The Unprecedented and Odious Haitian Independence Debt (ft. Marlene Daut)

Ep 72 - Can Borrowing Costs for Tribes be Reduced? (ft. Kevin Washburn)

Ep 71 - Sri Lanka, SriLankan Airlines, and...

Ep 70 - How to Destroy the Collective Action Clause?

Ep 69 - Why do Tribal Casinos Pay So Much to Borrow? (ft. David Jordan)

Ep 68 - The Legal Weeds of Sri Lanka's International Bonds (ft. Andres de la Cruz)

Ep 67 - Ukraine-Russia: Who Should Have Priority to Get at Frozen Russian Assets?

Ep 66 - Initiatives to Improve Sovereign Debt Markets (ft. Deborah Zandstra)

Ep 65 - Russia-Ukraine Emergency Podcast 2: Subversive Drafting or Goofs

Ep 64 - Is Russian Sovereign Debt Now Worthless?

Ep 63 - Sri Lanka on the Brink? (ft. Trang Nguyen)

Ep 62 - Is There a Plan for Dealing with the Sri Lankan Debt? (ft. Benjamin Parkin)

Ep 61 - Should we worry about increasing global (and US) debt? (ft. John Cochrane)

Ep 60 - What's going on with Venezuela? (Blue Bonds) (ft. Steven Bodzin & Carla Dager)

Ep 59 - The Environmental Benefits of the Belize Restructuring (ft. Jill Dauchy)

Ep 58 - The History Behind Lawsuits Over Old Chinese and Russian Sovereign Debt (ft. Elya Zhang)

Ep 57 - From Russia With ... Well, Frankly, A Bit of Concern (ft. Paul Stephan)

Ep 56 - From Commercial Bank Loans to Blue Bonds (ft. Antonia Stolper)

Ep 55 - Does Haiti Have a Legal Right to Compensation from France? (ft. Gunther Handl)

Ep 54 - The Domestic Costs of Imposing Capital Controls (ft. Stephen Nelson)

Ep 53 - What Exactly is the Duty of Good Faith? (ft. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan and David Hoffman)

Ep 52 - The Province of Buenos Aires' Restructuring (ft. Scott Squires)

Ep 51 - Restricting Trading in Venezuela’s Sovereign Bonds (ft. Thomas Laryea)

Ep 50 - What Do We Know About International Investment? (ft. Rachel Wellhausen)

Ep 49 - Financial Contract Design (ft. Lachlan Burn & Jeffrey Golden)

Ep 48 - Local v. Foreign Bonds? (ft. Layna Mosley)

Ep 47 - The Greek Restructuring of 2012 – Filling in the Gaps (ft. Andrew Shutter)

Ep 46 - (Why) Are ESG Sovereign Bonds (Such) Scams?

Ep 45 - ESG Scores (ft. Lupin Rahman)

Ep 44 - What Does it Mean to Say the Treasury Market is Risk Free? (ft. Yesha Yadav)

Ep 43 - The Sovereign Debt Acronym Show (ft. Aitor Erce)

Ep 42 - Did External Finance Produce Weaker States? (ft. Didac Queralt)

Ep 41 - How do Investors in Sovereign Bonds Fare? (ft. Josefin Meyer)

Ep 40 - Veil Piercing and State-Owned Entities (ft. Anna Gelpern)

Ep 39 - Covid is Just Like the _______ Crisis (ft. Juan Flores Zendejas)

Ep 38 - Can Courts Help Right Historical Wrongs? (ft. Matthias Goldmann)

Ep 37 - How China Lends (ft. Anna Gelpern & Christoph Trebesch)

Ep 36 - Euro Area Sovereign Debt (ft. Anne-Laure Delatte)

Ep 35 - Bendy Bonds Are Better (Say it Five Times Fast) (ft. Ben Heller)

Ep 34 - Recent Sovereign Debt Drama (ft. Lee Buchheit)

Ep 33 - Green Bonds for Everyone! (ft. Matt Wirz)

Ep 32 - Central Banks, Executive Power, and Protecting Sovereign Assets (ft. Ingrid Wuerth)

Ep 31 - Value Recovery Instruments: A Contrarian View (ft. Mark Stumpf)

Ep 30 - Post-Colonial Odious Debt (ft. Gregoire Mallard)

Ep 29 - The Back Story of Iraq’s Debt Restructuring (ft. Simon Hinrichsen)

Ep 28 - What Does the U.S. Owe Haiti for La Navasse? (ft. Jacqueline Charles & Guy-Uriel Charles)

Ep 27 - Zambia's Default and Restructuring Prospects (ft. Tommy Stubbington)

Ep 26 - What Motivates China's Overseas Lending? (ft. Pippa Morgan)

Ep 25 - Do Investors Care About Odious Debts? (ft. Kim Oosterlinck)

Ep 24 - Haiti’s Odious "Independence Debt" (ft. Julia Rudolph)

Ep 23 - Covid (and Other) Contingencies (ft. Lee Buchheit, Joyce Chang, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer)

Ep 22 - Restructuring Uncle Sam's Debt (ft. Julia Mahoney & Ed Kitch)

Ep 21 - Best Crisis Management in HISTORY! (ft. Felix Salmon)

Ep 20 - Trees. Wrong. Barking Up. (ft. Jeromin Zettelmeyer)

Ep 19 - A View From the Sell Side (ft. Siobhan Morden)

Ep 18 - Why Not Use GDP-Linked Bonds? (ft. Yannis Manuelides)

Ep 17 - Judgments 1, CACs 0 (ft. Andy Hessick)

Ep 16 - Will Asking For Covid Assistance Cause a Ratings Downgrade? (ft. Elena Duggar)

Ep 15 - Pricing Those Pesky CACs (ft. Elena Carletti, Paolo Colla & Steven Ongena)

Ep 14 - What Lies Ahead? (ft. Robin Wigglesworth)

Ep 13 - What's Your Damage?

Ep 12 - What if we hit Another Sudden Stop? (ft. Patrick Bolton and Ugo Panizza)

Ep 11 - This Episode Will Become Void in 3...2...1

Ep 10 - State Guarantees That Bite One in the Backside (ft. Joseph Cotterill)

Ep 9 - Contracting for Disaster(s) (ft. Jim Ho)

Ep 8 - The Sovereign Debt Seating Chart Needs Bigger Chairs (ft. Anna Szymanski)

Ep 7 - Would you rather date Ecuador or Argentina? (ft. Colby Smith)

Ep 6 - How Did We Get the Crappy CAC? (ft. Anna Gelpern)

Ep 5 - Why all the Sturm and Drang Over Force Majuere? (ft. Eric Posner)

Ep 4 - Where Did All the Secured Loans Go? (ft. Noel Maurer)

Ep 3 - Gold Clause Mumbo Jumbo (ft. Gerard Magliocca)

Ep 2 - Imperial Chinese Bonds (ft. Tracy Alloway, Lee Buchheit, Alex Xiao)

Ep 1 - Venezuela’s Oil Company is Up For Grabs