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        <title><![CDATA[Brad W. Setser - Senior Fellow]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Brad W. Setser is the Steven A. Tananbaum senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Puerto Rico’s Debt Deal Leaves No Room for Error]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Its debt is more sustainable, but still much higher per capita than even the most indebted U.S. state.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Desmond Lachman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:00:28 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A woman walks up the stairs in the neighbourhood of La Perla where the video &quot;Despacito&quot; was recorded in San Juan, on July 22, 2017. Something unusual is happening in La Perla, a poor barrio clinging to a steep hillside between Old San Juan and the sea where the video for the pop hit &quot;Despacito&quot; was filmed. / AFP PHOTO / Ricardo ARDUENGO (Photo credit should read RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Puerto Rico Needs a Better Debt Deal]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Rosy assumptions about what the island can afford to pay bondholders threaten to doom its future.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:21:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No Taxpayer Bailout for Puerto Rico's Creditors]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The island government's rosy fiscal scenarios threaten its economic future.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Desmond Lachman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 15:  Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello Nevares speaks onstage during the Pathway To The Future: Opportunities Of An Economic Transformation Forum at PlayStation Theater on February 15, 2018 in New York City. Top Puerto Rico government officials announced that Puerto Rico is &quot;Open For Business&quot;.  (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images of Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development &amp; Commerce)</media:description>
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