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    Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis Deepens with Missed Payment

    Puerto Rico has "taken the first move to commit financial suicide." That's according to a credit analyst in Florida after Governor Alejandro García Padilla suspended deposits into a fund that pays general-obligation bonds. Michelle Kaske covers the Commonwealth for Bloomberg News .

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    By Warren Olney • Aug 4, 2015 • 6m Listen

    Puerto Rico has "taken the first move to commit financial suicide." That's according to a credit analyst in Florida after Governor Alejandro García Padilla suspended deposits into a fund that pays general-obligation bonds. Michelle Kaske covers the Commonwealth for Bloomberg News.

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    Rising Seas Are Threatening America's Cities
    1. 1:38Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis Deepens with Missed PaymentYou’re reading this
    2. 8:32A Wake-Up Call for Slow Moving Disaster
    3. 42:18Predicting the Future: Using Risk Assessment for Criminal Sentencing
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Christine Detz

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Charlotte Duren

      Producer, To the Point/Which Way LA?

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      Michelle Kaske

      Bloomberg News

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Rising Seas Are Threatening America's Cities
    1. 1:38Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis Deepens with Missed PaymentYou’re reading this
    2. 8:32A Wake-Up Call for Slow Moving Disaster
    3. 42:18Predicting the Future: Using Risk Assessment for Criminal Sentencing
    Back to To the Point