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Ep 181 - Are Sanctions on Venezuela Still Justified?

September 14, 2026

Are Sanctions on Venezuela Still Justified? The United States has had sanctions on Venezuela for many years now. The Executive Branch has broad authority to impose sanctions on foreign nations. Basically, there has to be a perception of some foreign threat to the security of the United States. But the main justification for sanctions now is that the Executive Branch wants to stop private creditors from getting their bite of Venezuelan oil assets in American courts. Can a threat produced b...

Ep 180 - Bonds Yields and Elections (ft. Layna Mosley)

August 31, 2026

Bonds Yields and Elections November is not that far away and the rates of U.S. Treasuries are rising. The Treasury Secretary is trying various strategies (perhaps, with November in mind) to juice the markets and get rates down, but they are not working all that well. What’s going on? What is the relationship between elections and treasury rates? We ask one of the leading experts in the world on this topic, Layna Mosley (who has a fabulous new paper on Brazil, elections and rates). Politic...

Ep 179 - Ethiopia’s Value Recovery Instruments

August 03, 2026

Ethiopia’s Value Recovery Instruments Value recovery instruments are a great idea in theory and a disaster in practice. The idea is to let investors share in the upside of a country’s recovery. But governments rarely want to pay and the instruments quickly migrate into the hands of investors with little stake in the recovery. Everyone involved looks to exploit loopholes. And since the instruments seemingly are drafted at the last minute, there are plenty of those. But maybe after several tri...