Episode 693: Unpayable

Enlarge this image toggle caption Ricardo Arduengo/AP Ricardo Arduengo/AP

Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but not one of the United States. And this limbo status has brought a world of economic trouble.

Today on the show, the peculiar Puerto Rican debt crisis explained.

Along the way, we help an adorable mom sort out what's left of her investments in her own government, we meet a chemist who benefited from the boom, and hear how it all ties in with a dramatic jail heist.



Music: "While She Waits." Find us: Twitter/ Facebook