Stabilizing Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt as a share of its income and reducing it to more sustainable levels should be a key goal of the island’s fiscal and economic policy, New York Fed CEO William Dudley said during a presentation to the CPA Society on Tuesday.
Contrary to what the government has been asserting over the past few months, the proposed budget for Fiscal 2015 will not be a balanced one because it is not factoring in sufficient appropriations to cover bond interest payments due, the Center for a New Economy said Wednesday.
The mess that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is submerged has gotten out of control, and so has the and public discourse that tends to further confuse people complicating an issue that has some clear immediate remedies.
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