Thanks in part to a CLACLS summer travel fellowship, I spent five weeks in Buenos Aires, Argentina conducting preliminary research towards my dissertation, which focuses on the politics of money and debt in the wake of dictatorships in this Southern Cone nation. I went with the purpose of talking to state officials, diplomats, lawyers, and other experts in the world of financial regulation. While I was there, Argentina’s long-running sovereign debt restructuring again captured national and international attention—this time in relation to a group of holdout or “vulture” hedge funds threatening to derail the process. Talking with experts in the realm of financial regulation proved an interesting counterpoint to the popular mobilizations in Buenos Aires, as debates over sovereign debt are shaping electoral campaigns leading up to Argentina’s October 2015 general election and have rallied global support for the Cristina Kirchner administration’s initiatives for greater regulation of “vulture funds.” Summer research thus added a new dimension to my dissertation, drawing my attention to the convergences of these two lines of inquiry.