"What we've been reading" Article / Nov. 16, 2011

Guardian: UK urged to prevent vulture funds preying on world's poorest countries

Britain is being urged to help close down a legal loophole that lets financiers known as "vulture funds" use courts in Jersey to claim hundreds of millions of pounds from the world's poorest countries, write Greg Palast, Maggie O'Kane and Chavala Madlena of the Guardian.