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Are El Salvador’s Bitcoin ‘Volcano Bonds’ an End Run Around the IMF?

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Buklli is using bit coin as an affinity vehicle to get cheap funding that he can't get through regular cpital markets. If elsalvador has to raise dollar funds through normal bonds, they'd have to pay mid double digit interest rates if they could issue at all. The point of the volcano bonds is that they live on a crypto trading plat form and people who like crypto will buy them and trade them with each other. They are hoddlers in wales. They get to hang out with the president of a country on a saturday night. All this stuff. But thank goodness i'm not a financial podcast. I'm a macro podcast that's all about shifts and

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