How I tried and failed to escape the debt markets
How far do you have to go to get away from the global credit ecosystem? Pretty far, it turns out.
It took less than 24 hours for leveraged loans to intrude upon my sabbatical.
I’d flown to Spain with my bike, to cycle the Camino de Santiago in reverse. The halfway point was a remote cabin in rural Asturias, and the final destination was the foodie paradise of San Sebastián. I pictured it as a retreat into hermetic isolation followed by a high-consumption reemergence into society.