Is Wall Street Behind the Delay in Declaring the Coronavirus Outbreak a “Pandemic”? | Covert Geopolitics
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Iran’s only had 43 deaths as of 2/29/20.
World Bank raises debt whose payments can be diverted from investors in emergency
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Why Pandemic Bonds Aren’t Such A Bad Idea
WSJ – The Painful Problem of Pandemic Bonds
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$425M in World Bank catastrophe bonds set to default if coronavirus declared a pandemic by June
Catastrophe Bonds Signal Coronavirus Nearing Pandemic Status
What the Coronavirus Means for the World’s First Pandemic Bonds
Back in 2017, the World Bank issued the world’s first pandemic bonds. The bonds are meant to shift some of the financial risk of a global pandemic on to investors, but they’ve been criticized for having ’triggers’ that are too tough to generate payouts. Now, as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, it’s worth looking at how these bonds are structured and what they can tell us about the future of public-private partnerships in finance. In this episode of Odd Lots, we speak with Olga Jonas
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