puerto rico

And the Democrats want statehood for PR so they can get two leftist Senators. Just give PR its independence already. Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez has fired the island’s director of emergency management after officials found a warehouse full of emergency supplies dating back to 2017's Hurricane...

"Puerto Rico Cancels Whitefish Energy Contract to Rebuild Power Lines By FRANCES ROBLES and DEBORAH ACOSTAOCT. 29, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/us/whitefish-cancel-puerto-rico.html "Facing withering criticism from members of Congress and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the...

"The Jones Act Waiver For Puerto Rico Just Expired And Won’t Be Renewed "That means the U.S. island decimated by Hurricane Maria will go back to paying double the shipping costs for food and supplies." "WASHINGTON ― The Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico expired Sunday night, and “it is not...

This, allegedly, is the threat which Puerto Rican politicians are making in the wake of the Hurricane. These of course would be the same politicians which bankrupted their island, and then committed accounting fraud to cover it up. My familiarity with the history of Puerto Ricans abandoning...

Trump says the billion$ owed to Wall Street banks and vulture funds "sadly must be dealt with." Others argue Puerto Rico deserves the same consideration DC gave to AIG and other crony capitalists on Wall Street in 2008 or European nations in the wake of WWII...

Puerto Rico has more debt per citizen than Connecticut, NY, and NJ combined. $15K per man woman and child. http://thehill.com/latino/336667-puerto-rico-goes-to-the-polls-for-statehood Puerto Rico is bankrupt. Decades of deficit spending have so impoverished the nation that it cannot meet...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/business/dealbook/puerto-rico-debt.html?_r=0 Want a crystal ball to foresee the future of pensions for state and local government employees? Look no further than Puerto Rico. It filed for bankruptcy today. That’s because it has $120 billion in debt for 3...