Vulture Funds

“Vulture funds; Wealthy foreign investors buy up distressed sovereign debt at pennies on the dollar – typically at a 90% discount – then reap vast profits when those debts are repaid in full. One trick is to make sure that influential locals (aka Economic Hitmen) are secretly part of the investor group buying the discounted debt: these locals will then do battles inside the developing country governments to make sure the debts get paid in full. Their involvement, of course, must be hidden behind a shield of offshore secrecy, so that the impoverished nation’s citizens can never find out how their nation’s wealth was stolen… 

… Economists have not ignored these issues entirely, but they almost always break them down into discrete, country level local problems that only blame corrupt local elites. These matter of course but such analyses doubt what all the disasters have in common. Offshore.

.. Two bodies set rules and models and standards in this field: the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), a club of rich nations, and the UN, where poor countries have a stronger voice. Unsurprisingly, the OECD dominates and it works hard to ensure that its treaty models, which tilt the treaty models in favour of the rich countries at the expense of the poor ones, is dominant.”
(Nicholas Shaxson, Treasure Islands.)

Along the surface of this Iceberg, the math equals that the 3rd world countries as the most resourceful, are robbed of 14 times the amount of their Aid income while 850 million remain in starvation? 

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