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Argentine dollar restrictions intensify malaise in real estate and the wider economy
On June 7 the Argentine government presented a bill to require debt and new contracts are denominated in pesos, while the government is mulling the de-dollarisation of real estate contracts. This would make real estate purchases even more difficult than they currently are in a country with ever-tightening capital controls. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI think the best answer to this story is another of today's stories, where Cristina is announcing a massive home building programme =)
Jun 13th, 2012 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0This year's Tax Revenue:
Jun 13th, 2012 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Soy...drought
Car Export...Brazil Recession
Construction...U$ restriction
Consumer Vat.... Import Restriction
Don't they know there is nothing left to destroy?
Tuesday 12 June...
Jun 13th, 2012 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“In the blue-chip swap market, which sets the implied exchange rate used to buy Argentine assets traded abroad, the peso traded at 6.50 per dollar on Tuesday, traders said. That marks a 45 percent spread above the formal price.”
And while Nero (CFK) fiddles, Rome (Argentina) begins to BURN
Jun 13th, 2012 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 03. Futures market has the July Arg Peso at 8/1
Jun 13th, 2012 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 amazing today I am also announcing that I am going to fly the moon by sticking a rocket up my arse. It wont happen but hey if Argentina can announce things that will never happen then why not me?
Jun 13th, 2012 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Meanwhile, average Argentines are finding that the trade restrictions are making some essential goods increasingly hard to obtain. The Association of Private Clinics, Sanatoriums and Hospitals recently sent a letter to the commerce authorities warning that stocks of articles like rubber gloves and syringes have dwindled to “critical levels.” Volunteer firefighters in the small town of Villa Gobernador Gálvez are nervously waiting for $10,000 worth of hoses, boots and other equipment that have been hung up in customs for three months. “It's an urgent necessity, because our hose is full of holes and water leaks out,” says Oscar Previtera, head of the local fire department.
Jun 13th, 2012 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303444204577460502395870724.html
Don't get sick in Argentina...
I bet Fat Maxi isn't wanting for anything while he is nursing his blown our knee.
More villas on the way... Two and three stories with free electric
Jun 13th, 2012 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 08. Yeah no toilet but they have direct tv in the villas...
Jun 13th, 2012 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Last time I flew into BA.... I remember a large wall of buildings(Villas) about three or 4 storie high on the left hand side of the highway.... I thought I had flown into Bolivia....
Jun 13th, 2012 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.businessinsider.com/the-american-dream-is-now-a-myth-2012-6
Jun 13th, 2012 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“There's not much mobility up and down,” he says. “The chances of someone from the top [income bracket] who doesn't do very well in school are better than someone from the bottom who does well in school.”
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@11 Truth_Telling_Troll (#)
Jun 13th, 2012 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jun 13th, 2012 - 09:11 pm
Well it is all relative. The USA has gone from being incredibly powerful to not quite as incredibly powerful. On the otherhand Argentina started at the bottom and is sliding ever further down.
@12
Jun 13th, 2012 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Started at the bottom? Certain about that, my sciolist fiend? We are still wealthier than 85% of the nations and societies of the world. I guess you believe “relativism” must work solely to your mealymouthed argumentative convenience. If “Argentina” is relative to the “United States”, then “Argentina” is also relative to ”(insert country name here___________). In 4 of 5 cases, we come out on top.
As usual with all of you argie-haters, you can't tell a duck from a horse. You are fibbing, duplicitous, dishonest scoundrels. And this prevents you from attaining even a microscopic degree of repute.
Try again next time. :(
Toby, Is there any other country that since 1900s has fallen faster and harder economically than Argentina? Going from #5 to #51 in 3 generations? I doubt it. I don't have the time to do the research though. Care to prove me wrong?
Jun 14th, 2012 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW did you see Arg doesn't have a University in the top 10 in LATIN AMERICA any longer!!
Becoming Bolivia more and more every year.
@13 Truth_Telling_Troll (#)
Jun 14th, 2012 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jun 13th, 2012 - 09:44 pm
I think there is a difference between an 'Argie hater' and a Malvinista hater. A big difference but Malvinistas can only deal in absolutes and therefore cannot tell the difference.
Amongst the G20 Argentina is at the bottom, hanging on by the skin of its fingernails but looking more and more likely to drop out. Like the feller said. It is all relative.
@14
Jun 14th, 2012 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How many countries were there in 1900s? How many are there today? The number of countries has doubled in Europe, Asia. There are many “countries” that are nothing but tiny islands and enclaves.
If you take all of those superfluous entities out Argentina would be in the top 30.
If the USA had 40 million people, it would have dropped to 14-15 when Japan, China, Brazil, and most of Western Europe recovered after WWII.
@15
I think Europe is more like to fall off the G20.
Population is irrelevant because I am talking GDP per capita not total GDP, the numbers of countries is relevant so just use whatever was in existence in 1900. From that starting point you are stating you went from 5 to 30, has any other country done worse? I don't think so.
Jun 14th, 2012 - 04:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Quickly looking at the list I don't see one country that is below Argentina that could have been once above. Please show me where I am wrong.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
So let me twist your twisted logic a little:
Jun 14th, 2012 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone here lambasts Argentina for dropping from top 5 to whatever it is now.
Have any of you haters eve for a minute sat down and considered the other side of the curve? How was it that us monkey argies did manage to get so supposedly wealthy in the first place?
In other words, if your child gets a 105 on a test whne the average kid got a 75, if your child then gets an 80 and the average is still 75 does it make him/her retarded?
18. Um at that point your economy was managed/controlled by the USA and UK then Peron kicked foreigner business owners out and nationalized everything. That's when you started down the long road to ruin. CFK has just put you in the fast lane though. Once the monkeys took the wheel it has been all down hill since.
Jun 14th, 2012 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So I am assuming you can't name 1 other country in the last 112 years that has had a great economic fall than Argentina. Am I correct?
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