Geary Behavioural Economics Blog: Household Debt Restructuring

Via the Irish Economy Blog, below is a recent paper from the IMF on government’s role in household debt restructuring. I commented on the IE Blog that the Irish case has a number of structural features that merit further discussion. …

Going Green to Get Out of Debt (ABC News)

ABC’s Jerika Richardson reports from New York: In an effort to help save some of the world’s disappearing tropical forests the United States is offering Indonesia some much needed debt relief. Today, the Indonesian government signed a “debt-for-nature swap agreement”…

Going Green to Get Out of Debt – The World Newser

ABC’s Jerika Richardson reports from New York: In an effort to help save some of the world’s disappearing tropical forests the United States is offering Indonesia some much needed debt relief. Today, the Indonesian government signed a …

Canwest defers debt payment – Winnipeg Free Press

WINNIPEG — Canwest Global Communications Corp. is about to breach its loan covenants on anothe… – Latest News – Winnipeg Free Press.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Deal With The Debt! Ctd. As the markets fret over inflation, Noah Millman has a penetrating post on what may lie ahead after the anti-deflationary splurge: If the United States faces a situation at some point in the near future where we …