The Empire of DebtPRAISE FOR EMPIRE OF DEBT Post Pandemic Edition Watching the news is a bit like watching a bad opera. You can tell from all the shrieking that something very important is supposed to be happening, but you dont quite know what it is. What youre missing is the plot. Let us begin by noticing that this is a comic opera that seems as though it might veer into tragedy at any moment. The characters on stage are familiar to useconomists, politicians,