[lbo-talk] Screwing Bondholders: Ending Bondage

michael perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Mon Aug 16 18:54:25 PDT 2010


The biased legal system lets bondholders make extortionate demands against workers, poor countries, …. President-elect Clinton learned how bond markets can even intimidate the government from exercising reasonable policies. So, with a bit of schadenfreude, I am glad to learn that Blackstone has the right to screw bondolders. Why should Blackstone have more rights than ordinary people? Why can’t we organize to put some limits on the untrammeled power of financial markets, including that of Blackstone?

More at:

http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/screwing-bondholders-ending-bondage/

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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