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Argentine government ‘dollar clamp’ suffers another court defeat
A court in the Argentine province of Cordoba ordered the Banco Nación to sell US dollars to a teacher, after she was authorized by AFIP tax agency to purchase Brazilian Reais, but could not do so due to lack of currency. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSurely I am not the only one surprised that their economic model is starting to collapse.
Jan 14th, 2013 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0For years Argentina has been told that their economic policies would not work and the replies were continually about their high growth, increased social spending and paying down debt.
The problem is that Argentina stole from her future economic growth to grow faster in the past. And now it is stopping.
There is no high growth now
Inflation has eroded all that increased social spending.
And the pursuit of debt repayments has led to currency disarray and funnily enough debt will start growing again. Argentina's nominal GDP is now shrinking and because its debts are predominantly denominated in US dollars, as a percentage of GDP this will grow.
Lie all you want about GDP growth and inflation, but the market is telling us the real inflation figures and the real exchange rate.
Seems like Argentina is heading backwards AGAIN.
And let's not even compare its absolute decline compared to its neighbourhood. Quite embarrassing really.
In the UK if I want to go on holiday, to Florida for indstance, I go to my local travel agent, bank, post office or Bureau de Change and exchange currecy, if they did not have it, they would oreder it and I pick it up the next day. simples!!
Jan 14th, 2013 - 09:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is this story saying, If I was an Argentine doing the same, I would send a lawyer to court for it? bloody marvelous state of affairs if ever there was one.
But there is no dollar clamp. CFK told students and the world's media that last year. And last week she told us she does not lie. So there must be a mistake somewhere?
Jan 14th, 2013 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't mind this at all. It helps me as I just go to our friendly black-market money dealer and exchange my dollars or pounds and bypass exchanging any money officially in the country. However, if you do have to change cash officially, then Buenos Aires is currently more expensive for things like milk and meat than Chelsea...
Jan 14th, 2013 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Having said that, when the in-laws come for a visit in November they are going to find it very difficult to live on the amount of cash AFIP allows them each day, even if they are staying with me...
Is this where CFK admits all the figures are lies, blames the “officials” at INDEC and begs the IMF for a “little more” time to correct matters? Then she can slap a couple of percentage points on the “official” inflation figure and carry on lying. When will she admit that inflation is 36% and rising? That she's confused reality with her wish list! Still, as long as she's making plentry, eh?
Jan 14th, 2013 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Firstly Mercedes Marcó del Untruths said that the hike in the so-called “blue” dollar is “clearly a seasonal phenomenon”. Doesn't seem very seasonal. Where did you get your online-degrees again, Mercedes?
Jan 14th, 2013 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5, she clearly said at the Mar de La Campora submarine base that she 'never lies and never cheats', so how dare you suggest that she lies about her degrees and the economy, and cheats Santa Cruz out of $520million and Aerolingus La Campora out of $2.3 billion.
How dare you!
Stated BCRA goals for 2013, 18-20% peso depreciation and 30+% rise in monetary base.
Jan 14th, 2013 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She is a stupid cow.
I think 10/1 peso (blue) by 3rd quarter 2013 and if they can avoid hyperinflation I will be shocked.
This woman is the epitome of stupidity in government: she even outdoes TMBOA herself.
Jan 14th, 2013 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Jan 14th, 2013 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mental. They want to increase monetary base? the devaluation will only work if there is no inflation. If inflation continues then you're just in the same position but with a weaker international currency. On eofthe things keeping CFK in power is the fact that, with the artificial exchange rate, people feel richer as they can go abroad...
The labyrinth has become so much darker and more convoluted than this character in his naivety believed.....
Jan 14th, 2013 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2012/05/30/if-lucky-at-the-end-of-the-labyrinth-cfk-might-bless-you-with-a-few-bucks
”TWIMC:
Article says:
“If lucky at the end of the labyrinth, CFK might bless you with a few bucks”
I say:
Labyrinth?
Let's see.....
The AFIP website asks users for:
1. CUIT: 1234567890
CUIL : 0987654321
DNI: 5647382910
2. First and last name: El Think
3. Birth date: 01/04/1912
4. Occupation: Argie
5. Country of origin: Argentina
6. Reason for travel: Educational
7. Departure date: 30/05/2012
8. Return date: 31/05/2012
9. Travel agency CUIT number: 666-999-666
10. Mode of transport: Private jet.
11. Amount of currency you wish to purchase (in pesos): 100
Woooooow.
It took two minutes.....
May I get another one?....
That ”Labyrinth took
”
Welch, It is just a continuation of the 2012 plan. It is plain to me it is a winning strategy If the goal is to make everyone but the Prez, her immediate family, her cronies and minions very poor.
Jan 14th, 2013 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Reminds me of the Soviet Union, laws are for thee not for me. The Politburo had any luxury they wanted and the rest of people starved.
If you kick over the contented ants nest of the judiaciary as Cristina has done by questioning thier judgements the ants get antsy and bite back
Jan 14th, 2013 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2, Shucks, depending on the exchange rate and fees your bank offers, you just need to slide your bank card into an ATM when you at the Airport. No human contact required at all. My ideal vacation experience.
Jan 14th, 2013 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13
Jan 14th, 2013 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But argies who do that get a nasty letter from the credit card company by order of their government AND hefty fees (fines) to go with it.
Interesting, I met an Argentine today that was trying to go to Mexico. I asked him if he had applied with AFIP for his trip money (dollars.) He said yes he had, but they wouldn't give him one dollar. AFIP said he owed back taxes. Apparently you are audited when apply for dollars.
Jan 14th, 2013 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 015. Oh yes, there is a process based on your salary, monthly expenses, job title, degree of education, and who knows what else that they go through to make sure you obtained the money “legally” and based on your class/education etc how much you are entitled to get for your vacation,
Jan 14th, 2013 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice huh?
and they pretend to have no idea they are living under a dictator.
Sheesh
No good rubbing garlic on your the green backs or putting pepper in your wallet, the dogs will still find them! Putting them in a tube and shoving them you know where won't work either!
Jan 14th, 2013 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@17 I think you could get £9 in your jap's eye if you tried hard enough.
Jan 15th, 2013 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0The opposition released their latest inflation figures, 2.1%, per month.
Jan 15th, 2013 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0INDEC release theirs tomorrow, I can tell you what they'll be..... 0.9% again...
I hope I'm not speaking too soon, but the trolls don't seem to be anywhere in sight. I guess inflation is a topic beyond their comprehension. Does it ever both you that all the articles about the Falklands have over 200 comments no matter how trivial, while other issues get a whopping 30 at best?
Jan 15th, 2013 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@20 The argentine SA trolls seem to struggle with facts. Even this fourth-reich economist seems to struggle with them.
Jan 15th, 2013 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0@20, well that's the whole point of waving the Malvinas' Bloody Shirt. It worked temporarily with the Junta before the UK gave them the reality-jaring trouncing they deserved. As the current AR government's aggression so far as been childishly “passive” unlike their beloved Junta's suicidal move, they're setting things up to milk this throughout the shoe-dropping that will eventually come from the IMF once they stop kicking the can down the road.
Jan 15th, 2013 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0After Cristina destroys the economy, all her little minions will suffer unemployment without the benefits of social plans. I don't like people that want to opt for extreme government control to get something they didn't earn. Instead of using their free time to make something of themselves, they get morbidly obese, create discord and steal.
Jan 15th, 2013 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An economy needs breathing room to work. The productive deserve the benefits of their work, not to have it taken by a bunch of oxygen wasters.
(20) Optimus_Princeps
Jan 15th, 2013 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say…..:
”Does it ever both you that all the articles about the Falklands have over 200 comments no matter how trivial, while other issues get a whopping 30 at best?”
I say…:
You mean like this article about ~25% of USA’s children on Food Stamps; “sarcastically” commented by 1 (one) Chilean Neo-Liberal poster?
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/01/14/twenty-million-us-children-one-in-four-received-food-stamps-in-2011#comment206073
Ps:
Nice caption of Ms. Marcó del Pont.........
Ahhhhh.... If I only was 100 years younger......
20. Having a bi-polar delusional nut bag running your country into the ground embarrasses most of our resident Rg half wits most of them can't do simple math and have no idea how an economy works. That is why they don't post on a lot on these types of articles.
Jan 15th, 2013 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm still saying they end up eating tree-bark soup, with occasional shoe. In these situations they'll probably vote another fasco-peronist into power, who is going to harp on and on and on about the falklands.
Jan 15th, 2013 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The tree does not concern itself with the activities of the ants.
It shows that this is not going unnoticed.
Jan 16th, 2013 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Great Article:
The Deadbeat Wears Prada
It kind of makes me sick when the deadbeat wears Prada. Such is the case with Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez. Argentina overwhelmingly voted her in as President and she immediately borrowed vast sums of money. This influx of cash jet-fueled an economic bubble which predictably popped. Then the bills came due for all the money she had borrowed during Argentina’s economic boom.
Rather than paying the piper and facing the obdurate, double-plus unfunny task of cleaning up after her socialism party, Fernandez made like a good Marxist and socialized some of the losses from her own economic mismanagement. Anyone dumb enough to buy Argentinean bonds got stiffed like a co-star in an old Harry Reams film. Argentina defaulted on its debt payments and referred to some of the hedge funds which hold the now worthless Argentinean paper as “vulture funds” because they refused to take a haircut and attempted to make Argentina’s government answer for their behavior in court.
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We now discuss the problem with that entire empathetic line of thought. The poor deserve better than Fernandez, but they were all both stupid enough and cynical enough to vote for the Wicked Witch of Buenos Aires. They were stupid enough to believe she could serve them a free lunch, and they were cynical enough to let themselves be used as hostages against the rules of an orderly financial market.
http://www.redstate.com/2013/01/15/argentina-the-deadbeat-wears-prada/
#4 you should be thankful, I wonder how many Argentine under menem or galtieri had the chance to spend a few weekends in Dutch land. CFK is making justice work for all not just for the outsiders, in Canada you can be deported if you don't pay taxes.
Jan 16th, 2013 - 03:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0#5 she will admit it when UK admits to the illegal occupation of Islas Malvinas Argentina and US admits to turning Muslims into terrorist at the CIA.
#7 if this idiots keep saving in dollars hyperinflation is warranted its all dictated by the laws of demand and supply of pesos, no demand for pesos is equal to 0.00$ value, I don't think CFk has the power to buy all the pesos to create a price.
#8 I Like CFK, if you don't! go to USA where you can be payed in dollars.
#9 the hope is that they will all go out and learn how good they have it in Argentina.
#17 we all have to declare and pay taxes.
#27 you are surely talking about menem because in 2001 there was no money for anyone. And since 2001 no credit agency trusts Argentina.
All those so called politicians from the irrelevant oposition parties, just criticise the level of inflation, and never say what they would do, in order to lower it, in case they were elected to rule arg.
Jan 18th, 2013 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the case of the economists, who some of them are just lobbists of different corporations, make no more than the tipical mediocre analysis, and blame just the erratic policy that the govt. uses to control the prices.
Both just emphasize in the lack of reliable indexes from the indec, however none of those insignificant politicians, or puppets lobbists say absolutly anything about the huge economic concentration that we have in the most important sectors of our economy, like foods and metalic sectors.
None of them criticse the abuse of those oligopolic sectors, which increase the prices of the products, and restrain the necesary inverstments.
Beside, they have never criticised either, the lack of economic support to the enterprices by the private banks, due to most them just give credicts for the adquisition of different goods. Just the public banks have always given economic support to the enterprices. I hope that now it changes, after the reform the of charter of the central n¡bank, which forces all the banks to ceade the 5% of their huge profitabilities, to the economic support for the enterprices, i read that most banks complied already with the new rule, let's see what happens.
Anyway i don't deny that the policy of our govt. that it uses to control the prices is obsolet, and it's not working, but the the problem of the inflation level is much more complicated than the hipocrite analysis of those so called politicians and economists, and it will take many years to solve it.
At this moment arg. doesn't have the structural problems which have always provoked huge inflation levels or hipper inflation, because it doesn't have neither a hight debt, nor a hight fiscal defict, beisde, it's not going trough any deep economic crisis.
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