MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Chile anticipates mild slowdown after years of strong growth
Chile's economy is entering a mild slowdown phase after years of strong growth said Finance Minister Felipe Larrain on Friday. Chile has been expanding at about 5.8% on average for the past three years despite global economic woes while maintaining enviably low inflation and jobless rates. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis inequality thing is soooo misleading. Chile is inequaly richer than any neighbor equaly poorer. Unfortunately, in Latam, as long richer can't get richer is okay to have the poors poorer. Ethiopia is one of the least inequal countries - a paradise! It took 50 years for Singapore to get where it is (still inequaly richer than nordics), socialmobility will sure come for Chile.
May 18th, 2013 - 02:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil and Argentina will watch passively from the shanty towns for a long time. And it is a pity.
“mild slowdown after years of strong growth”
May 18th, 2013 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A bit like Argentina...
(2) British_Kirchnerist
May 18th, 2013 - 03:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A bit like Argentina...?
Just a bit...?
Just for your info, Comrade......:
”How many Chileans?
Last year (2012) the reliability of the country’s poverty survey, the CASEN, was called into doubt. Now (2013) it’s the turn of the census and inflation figures.”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/04/statistics-chile
”Golborne gone….
”Not one, but two financial scandals....”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/04/statistics-chile
Not for nothing are they our “little brothers” ;-)))
#3 Indeed, though you'd never realise from the mercopress headlines!
May 18th, 2013 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nor would you know form the actual Chileans that post here......Can't say I blame them.
May 19th, 2013 - 01:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Even INDEC's fake lie of a GDP growth figure is lower than Chile's slow down.
May 19th, 2013 - 05:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Little brother” Chile keeps proving that Argentineans are nothing more than “poor cousins”. A view that will be further entrenched after the next inevitable Argentine crash.
TWIMC
May 19th, 2013 - 06:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Our dear little brothers indeed......, our beloved hermanitos Shilenos.
Except in football........., of course.
There, we “have them as sons”*
*(los tenemos de hijos :-)
PMSL
May 19th, 2013 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Poor cousins is not a term of endearment you idiot!
(8) Anglolatino
May 19th, 2013 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0No shit Sherlock!
Baiting you is sometimes too easy Stevie.
May 19th, 2013 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For Chiles sake, I hope they are no closer than 4th cousins.
May 19th, 2013 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC
May 19th, 2013 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brothers we are...., from same mother and father…..
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Abrazo_de_Maip%C3%BA_Pedro_Subercaseaux.jpg
Some 400,000 hermanitos Shilenos living in Argentina….
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Abrazo_de_Maip%C3%BA_Pedro_Subercaseaux.jpg
About 100,000 Argentinos weones living in Shile….
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Abrazo_de_Maip%C3%BA_Pedro_Subercaseaux.jpg
Carnal brothers and sisters, indeed……
carnal brothers I am sure......lol. Too much interbreding with sis.
May 19th, 2013 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Carnal brothers indeed……
May 19th, 2013 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As carnal as Yankee Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers.
Think you are the one that stated you are carnal brothers and sisters.......you cannot change that. Incest amongst you la cucaracha's
May 19th, 2013 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Turnip at (15)
May 19th, 2013 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Carnal brothers” means brothers of same father and mother....
What kind of Yankee turnip doesn't know that, being Spanish the second language of the USA?
Is being a turnip an insult? Call me a SA and I might get pissed off.
May 19th, 2013 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnal
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnal
The rest of the world call of mother and father....maternal and paternal
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnal
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnal
Argentine ....turnip if you will, though I prefer many other names for one like you.
Turnip at (17)….. Learn Spanglish...:
May 19th, 2013 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.myspace.com/esecali/photos/59895050
Or Chicano Caló...:
“Carnal brother; close friend; homeboy, from primo carnal, ”first-grade cousin“”
http://www.myspace.com/esecali/photos/59895050
when I lose my job, go on welfare and beg for handouts, then I will learn more of your hybrid language being then I will be living like one.
May 19th, 2013 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey Stink.....I am curious....how is it going with you RG's trying to get your beef and lemons in up here? Don't you have a WTO complaint?
To my Shilean hermanitos.....
May 19th, 2013 - 09:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Chile gasta mucho más de lo que tiene”
HABLA EL ECONOMISTA CHILENO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE CAMBRIDGE, JOSE GABRIEL PALMA
http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-220319-2013-05-19.html
Chile and still far better off than Argentina and I highly doubt many Chileans think much of you as their brothers.
May 20th, 2013 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Have an RG limon.
Someone please help Stevie. He is stuck down an ever deeper hole with his false friend “carnal”.
May 20th, 2013 - 03:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Totally different modern usages. Unless he is condoning incest.
Who knows?
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