IMF mission travels to Argentina in April to help design a new national CPI

Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:06 UTC

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The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will send a team to Argentina again next month to continue work on revamping the government's discredited inflation measure, and will provide specific recommendations. Read full article

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ed
imf , are they true all other countries' inflation numbers?,i don't guess..
Mar 25th, 2011 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
Ed, don´t know, but it would be really good to have an index working in Argentina that is working in many other places in the world so we have some faith in the figures.
It must be really difficult to trade internationally when you have no faith in a nation´s official statistics.
Mar 25th, 2011 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
The IMF should also pay attention to the CPI index in the US. ahh wait, they already agree with Ben Bernanke that food and energy prices don't need to be calculated..ahh. Nevermind.
Mar 25th, 2011 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ptolemy
.....“It must be really difficult to trade internationally when you have no faith in a nation´s official statistics.”.......
The people in Argentina have no faith in the nation´s official statistics.
Mar 25th, 2011 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Suguler
Considering how useless the rating agencies are, and how the IMF and World Bank failed to anticipate the financial crisis.

Alan Greenspan built an entire career out of fraud and deceit.
Mar 25th, 2011 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ptolemy
...interesting point though,..why Argentina would invite the IMF here (BA) when they despise the so much.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 02:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Martin_Fierro
6 ptolemy,

The people in the UK don't seem to have much faith either.

http://en.mercopress.com/2011/03/27/massive-march-in-london-to-protest-planned-measures-to-cut-budget-deficit

And I seriously doubt Argentina requested the services of the IMF, sounds made up.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 06:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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I
IMF ? no thanks !!! Argentina already has a central bank and all the blood suckers and leaches Argentina can handle, we couldn't afford to feed the rest of the world, maybe they can go to Libya and Iraq and finish thefting all Muslim resources first.
http://www.gregpalast.com/el-actual-ganador-del-premio-nobel-en-economia/
Mar 27th, 2011 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ptolemy
7 Martin_Fierro said:
“And I seriously doubt Argentina requested the services of the IMF, sounds made up.”

Read this: http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2011/pr11100.htm
(You can phone them up too.)
Mar 31st, 2011 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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