WASHINGTON — More than 100 people crammed into a conference room at one of Washington’s most prestigious think tanks Thursday to hear three experts dissect what exactly caused Puerto Rico’s worsening debt crisis and how to fix it.
On Nov. 6, the Brookings Institution — one of Washington’s most prestigious think tanks — will delve into the origins of Puerto Rico’s $73 billion debt crisis and what can be done to nurse the island’s ailing economy back to health.
WASHINGTON — What do the World War II-era Burma Road, the 30,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway linking Alaska to Argentina, a $120 million aluminum smelter in Ghana, and a $3 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea have in common?