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A weakened dollar/peso cuts both ways; more competitive exports, more expensive imports. The temptation for the US is to inflate its way out of debt; a plummeting dollar will be part of that fun ride - hold onto your hats folks!

Looks good. Are you planning to get some sweets (candy) from the UK?

I agree that it's surprising this isn't more widely reported. However, the Independent is a serious newspaper and I'm pretty sure this is factual and what is being reported is more than just window-dressing. I have no argument with keeping politicians on their toes, that's what democracy...

Just another example of Obama's empty rhetoric... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-gets-ready-for-the-yanks-to-go-home-1704830.html

This is the exact opposite of what I said! It's a bit depressing when someone replies to your posts without having bothered to read them. Of course BBW is from the Marxist/Leninist left - THAT is why I suggested he should be ashamed of rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. Of the old...

BBW, it's easy to find articles critical of Obama; if you hadn't noticed, a lot of people have had very fixed and very negative views of him from the start. Personally I would be ashamed of rubbing shoulders with the attack-dogs of the right - it does you no credit.

You're mistaken Nancy, BBW would like to huff and puff and blow the bourgeoise repressors of the masses' house down. Yes, he's an old-fashioned Stalinist/Maoist/Trotskiite/Leninist/Anarchist, or some-such, who has conveniently forgotten just how repugnant 'communist' regimes actually were...

Brilliant! He killed his own grandmother!! This gets better and better! Of course none of this criticism is related to the fact that his skin is just the teeniest bit darker than yours or mine. Of course not! Don't suppose you even noticed; it's just that there's something about him that's...

Absolutely. It's almost as if the judgement was made first, the justification for it was thought out second. Anyone attacked so viciously by both extreme right and extreme left certainly gets the benefit of my doubt.

Two policies on which he will be judged, quite rightly. If he back-tracks on either of these I'll agree he is an empty windbag just as Clinton proved to be. The difference between most posters here comes down to the level of cynicism. I'm willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt (for...

I would hazard a guess that your 'background knowledge' of the last 100 years of history is based of picking out the bits that support your own loud but blinkered views. So Obama's speech was just a lot of words with no substance - newsfash: that's what a speech is; words. Sometimes a speech...

Poor old Revsocialist! Seems to think the various branches of Islamofascism and antisemites he courts will support him in his glorious Marxist struggle. He'll be first up against the wall when Sharia law comes a'callin' down his neck of the woods. Seriously though, Obama made an excellent...

The man is one of the modern world's greatest orators; what he says is lucid, intelligent and humane. Prediction - pretty soon now the 'Christian' right will be calling him the antichrist.

The British media just love cannon-fodder like Susan Boyle, hence this sort of TV programme. Build them up then knock them down - a tired old formula, but it works every time and the British public is cruel enough to play along, voting against her in the final, just like a child pulling the...

The article mentions that meat may soon have to be imported because export taxes were increased to support domestic supply - so investment in the industry decreased. A fine example of the unintended consequences of meddlesome goverment policies. Will Chistina and her bosses ever learn...

They became honorary northerners... Yes, I know the idea's a pretty massive generalisation, but perhaps there's a grain of truth in it. Sometimes I wonder how any work got done in tropical climates before air-con. Interesting comment about it once being the other way round. Certainly...

To some extent the differences between the US and Argentina match those between the north and south of Europe. In the north, the harsher climate led to hard-working individualistic folk and a strong sense of public duty and probity - someone dipping into the village grain supply could put the...

All nations are different, all economies are different, all things are different. By compariing them we can learn about each through their differences and similarities. Just flatly contradicting someone is a pointless activity.

Fundamentally the two countries have a lot in common, so why not?

Yes, the interview is basically a brief summary of his Financial Times article. He does make the point that although Argentina started on the wrong foot by having an 'aristocracy' of large landowners, it was a series of decisions leading on from that that led to the country's decline. None of...