A mini-Summit on January 5, 2023 was attended by the new president of Argentina, Javier Millay. The reason for the meeting he had with the technical staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which took place on the very day that the price of gasoline rose by 27% and meat, a staple food in Argentina, …
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Argentina: Issuing Perpetual Bonds for ‘Haircuts’ Without ‘Haircuts’
The tool of perpetual bonds to service the debt of the perpetually sick and asthmatic Argentina is intended to be used by the President of Argentina, Javier Millay. More specifically, the Argentine president by issuing perpetual debt seeks to repay a $16 billion bond – money that had been used to renationalize the country’s public …
Good Luck Argentina: A Promising Liberal Experiment Begins
Argentina is perhaps the only example of a country that, while it was among the 10 richest at the beginning of the 20th century, was driven into poverty by the populist state diet economic model of the Peronists. A country rich in natural resources followed a failed development model based on industrialization behind a wall …
What does the dollarization of Argentina’s economy mean?
Argentina’s economic quagmire was the focus of the country’s November 19 presidential election. And the citizens have decided that they want… radical solutions. That’s why they nominated Javier Millay as the new president, who appeared several times with a… chainsaw. He promised to put a… “chainsaw” on public spending, in Latin America’s 3rd largest economy, …