The Weight of Credit: How Countries Get Trapped in Debt The world's most powerful countries have a secret: when they're stuck in a cycle of debt, they call Lee Buchheit, the go to expert on sovereign debt restructuring.
Buchheit has spent his career working with desperate clients – governments literally begging for mercy from their creditors – and yet he still manages to extract them from these fiscal quagmires.
Buchheit's work is a stark reminder that countries often end up in debt due to the messy intersection of economics and politics.