MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Argentina bans inflation from official jargon; inflation of synonyms
Next October Argentines will be going to the polls to vote for president and renew Congress which anticipates a rough political eight months, but before that the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has to weather a round of labour contracts which will be demanding strong adjustments because of the “prices distortion and dispersion” since the word ‘inflation’ has been erased from the official jargon. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLOL , nothing like hiding from the truth is there, freedom of speech? afraid of reality...ban a word instead...!!
Mar 09th, 2011 - 09:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0That is funny.
Mar 09th, 2011 - 09:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-))
One really doesn't know whether to laugh or cry... I think I'll join you blokes and have a good larf....
Mar 09th, 2011 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe she should ban other words she doesn't like too, such as corruption?
Mar 09th, 2011 - 11:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hahahaha these RG's are a funny race.
Nothing like good old Latin American politics! Hopefully this lunatic won't get re-elected.
Mar 09th, 2011 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lies, lies and lies. All that Argentina is good at.
Mar 09th, 2011 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Somebody ask Cristina why so many Argentinians are standing in line at the immigration office in Santiago trying to immigrate to Chile. How many Chileans are standing in line at the immigration office in Buenos Aires trying to immigrate to Argentina? I would imagine that's a pretty small number.
Mar 09th, 2011 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Top UK businessmen among 9 arrested in bank probe”
Mar 10th, 2011 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110309/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_britain_iceland_financial_crisis
Marcos, try and stay on topic..... there's a good chap.
Mar 10th, 2011 - 02:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think this is generally referred to as the Voldemort solution, if you don't mention it by name then it can't be really there...
Mar 10th, 2011 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0To be fair the Argentine government has precedants to this, they have for a long time not recognised such terms as: corruption, debt, repayment, genocide, incompetence, acountability, fair play, justice, peculation....the list goes on.
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