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27 May 2016
Ike Brannon, Visiting Fellow at the Cato Institute and former U.S. Treasury Department official, discusses Congress's proposed legislative response to Puerto Rico's debt crisis and the dangerous political precedent it sets, including how the Obama Treasury Department and other supporters of PROMESA want it to be a model to bail out high-spending states and municipalities like Illinois and Chicago.
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