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‘Vulture Funds’: rich people consuming the world’s poor

‘Vulture Funds’: rich people consuming the world’s poor

A new type of hedge fund was invented in the mid-1990s. It was eponymously called ‘vulture fund.’ These funds are used to ‘buy debts racked up years ago by the poorest countries on earth, almost always when they were run by kleptocratic dictators, before most of the current population was born.’ They buy the debt from the original holder at [...]