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The speaker believes countries with high debt, low tax revenue, and frequently refinanced debt—including Pakistan and Nigeria—will be in serious trouble under the new interest-rate regime.
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“I was just looking at which countries have a lot of debt,”
“have very little tax revenue,”
“and also a lot of their debt is serviced quite often.”
“And those countries like Pakistan or Nigeria.”
“Jerry or something I think they're just going to be very fucked in this new interest rate regime”Play from 52:10Report a misattribution
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