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This episode dissects the Brady Plan mechanism — the Par Bond and Discount Bond structure, the collateral requirement that immobilized Argentina's own reserves at the Federal Reserve, the floating rates the sovereign could not control, and the payment schedule concentrated at the exact moment of maximum external stress.

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We cover: why Argentina had to use its own reserves to guarantee the principal recovery of the banks it was settling with — the three external shocks of 1997 to 2001 that made the back-loaded payment cliff unserviceable — the absence of any institution at the negotiating table whose mandate was Argentina's long-term fiscal sustainability — and what the Brady mechanism produced for Mexico and Brazil versus what it produced for Argentina, and why the difference was structural from day one.In 1992, Argentina signed a debt restructuring that was supposed to end its crisis. Nine years later it defaulted on one hundred billion dollars — the largest sovereign default in history. The restructuring didn't fail because Argentina broke its commitments. It failed because the instrument was designed by the creditor class, optimized for their recovery, and back-loaded to a decade the debtors could not control.

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