{"id":144972,"date":"2024-10-15T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T00:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144972"},"modified":"2024-10-15T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T00:05:26","slug":"sri-lanka-is-not-bankrupt-countries-dont-go-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/15\/sri-lanka-is-not-bankrupt-countries-dont-go-bankrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Is Not Bankrupt! &#8211; Countries Don&#8217;t Go Bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Prof. Hudson McLean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Countries Don&#8217;t Go Bankrupt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Countries Do Not &amp; Cannot Go Bankrupt!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sri Lanka Is Not Bankrupt!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Countries don&#8217;t go out of business&#8230;.The infrastructure doesn&#8217;t go away, the productivity of the people doesn&#8217;t go away, the natural resources don\u2019t go away.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that&#8217;s very different from a company.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walter Wriston<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citicorp Chairman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;The time bomb was the debt burden and grotesquely high interest rates being carried by the Third World to the profit of the Western banks.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Les Gibbard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>List of Countries by External Debt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_external_debt\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_external_debt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10 Great Countries without Public Debt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\" start=\"1\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#switzerland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Switzerland<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#sweden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sweden<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#norway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norway<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#denmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Denmark<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#czech-republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Czech Republic<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#estonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Estonia<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Singapore<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#taiwan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#south-korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Korea<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/#russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/\">https:\/\/www.clearfinances.net\/countries-without-public-debt\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Next Episode;&nbsp; Has Sri Lanka Gone Communist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2014\u2014-&nbsp; ENDS?&nbsp; \u2014\u2014- Not Yet!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><u>Express Your Opinion &#8211; Read What Others Say!<br>The Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.<br><br>Please visit -: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hudson McLean Countries Don&#8217;t Go Bankrupt Countries Do Not &amp; Cannot Go Bankrupt! Sri Lanka Is Not Bankrupt! &#8220;Countries don&#8217;t go out of business&#8230;.The infrastructure doesn&#8217;t go away, the productivity of the people doesn&#8217;t go away, the natural resources don\u2019t go away.&nbsp; And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-mclean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}