Recent content by bigbadwolf

There's no "treatment" I know about. On the plus side, the mortality rate is only 2%. And if memory serves, only around 20% of those infected are showing symptoms of sickness. You will (most probably) eventually recover

A link to his latest blog post: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2020/01/new-decade-new-rules.html

Random Guyido is merely a gambit pawn essayed by the USA and he'll be jettisoned when his "coup" falls flat on its face. Then the USA will try something else. What's interesting is that South America is now contested territory. The Monroe Doctrine is out. Postscript: The Saker's trenchant...

Now mind: this is from the neo-Nazi site, Daily Stormer. Not some Bernie supporters. https://dailystormer.name/happening-fake-president-of-venezuela-staging-military-coup/

Printing fiat currency to fund deficits -- provided a government can do so -- is an irresistible temptation, like crack cocaine to an incorrigible addict. Argentina has been addicted for decades. But the USA has been doing the same since the last vestiges of gold backing were removed in 1971...

No currency will "overtake" the USD. Probably no other country wants the status of global reserve, which among other things means running up persistent deficits. But countries that are exporting tangible things (like oil) want to make sure they're going to get paid in something of enduring...

There's a difference between pegging the peso to the dollar (while continuing to run fiscal and trade deficits that eventually make the peg unsustainable) and actually using US dollars (like Panama and Ecuador). I'm not sure that an economy the size of Argentina (which is G20, all said and...

You are right. If they did, the black market (or rather, the blue market) would step in promptly. Of course the banks might not give the best rates but that's what the blue market is there for.

Grampa Bernie won't get the nomination. What will happen is the usual: there will be a number of Dem candidates, some of them genuinely progressive. This way the corporate Democrats can fool the marks who are their base into thinking the party is progressive. But as the number gets whittled...

Thatcher was a rabid perra. There, someone had to say it.

She's a woman (check), a black (check), and gay (check). What are you complaining about? In today's USA we don't need anyone with actual managerial competence. https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/04/01/chattanooga-tennessee-bridge-collapse-presser-vpx.wtvc

I'm voting for Andrew Yang myself though I doubt he'll get the nomination.

I was tempted to write the same thing myself a couple of days back. The gringo attitude is that everyone south of the Rio Grande is a greaser. Argentinians might like to think they are displaced Europeans but that won't cut any ice with the US gringos.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/03/31/fox-news-host-apologizes-mexican-countries-chyron-it-never-should-have-happened

There's this idea that it's stable and relatively prosperous as Latin America goes. I'm guilty of having entertained this notion myself.