Hello and welcome to the China Problem episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance

news of the week.

I'm Felix I'm one of Axios, here with Emily Peck of of Exios,

with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and other places.

Hello.

And we are going to talk about China.

We're going to talk about how they seem to be throwing a spanner in the works of international

sovereign debt restructuring.

We are going to talk about collectibles and why people are spending tens of thousands of dollars on

video tapes of Rocky. We are going to be talking about mortgages and why a whole bunch

of people who should really be able to get a mortgage can't get a mortgage.

We have a Slate Plus segment about Rupert Murdoch, which presages this coming Monday's

Slate Money Succession. it's all coming up on slate money.

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So let's start with sovereign debt, because that's always my favorite subject, and specifically countries that are in-depth trouble that have defaulted or that might soon default.

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