Lebanon announced this month it was defaulting on all of its outstanding debt payments for the year, including $1.2 billion in eurobonds due in March. There are another $3.4 billion worth of eurobonds coming due after that. Those, too, will go unpaid.
It’s a burgeoning crisis that deserves attention — but it does not warrant the blind bailout that Beirut is trying to secure.
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