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Man, I cannot really believe that you always take the time to correct other people's errors of grammar and you write like a monkey. Me Tarzan, you what?

All types of cheese

I do agree with the conclusion of this article... Colombia -while not there yet- is catching fast. They got a lot of things right and they are ending 30 years of civil war. They have many natural resources and their population is somehow larger than the Argentine. And well... Argentine also has...

Just for your information, when you are working with a fraction where both the numerator and denominator depends on a common variable, you cannot change the variable in the denominator without changing the numerator. Since you come from a background in engineering... let say you have F(X)/X. If...

We live in Chacarita.

thanks. i am browsing that site right now but nobody seems interested in BA...

Since most of you have lived in many places... do you have any advice on housing exchange sites? I google and found a few of them. Any one has any experience to share? I am reluctant to pay to become a member if they are useless. I have finished my field work for a new book and I will take a...

The Central Bank in Argentina does not operate on the basis of the black market rate. What are you talking about? If you are an exporter in Argentina, when your exports go out you have to sell the foreign currency you get for the stuff you sell at the official rate (liquidación de...

I can't believe this country

we rented a car when we just moved... it was such a bad idea. commuting by car to BA is a mess (even without piquetes), people drive very badly, parking is very expensive and leaving the car in the street -if you can find a place- is an invitation for it to be robbed. if one day we decide to buy...

Thanks. I am a little bit afraid of dealing with big cash in Florida street. I did find someone at the end. I got 6.30 to the dollar and 7.50 to the euro.

I respect your opinion but I have to say that my experience was very different. I did my econ undergraduate at UBA (many years before you) and my PhD at an Ivy League and I never thought I was lagging behind any of my colleagues. Actually, the kids who were coming from undergraduate institutions...

Hi, I just learned that the person I usually sell my dollars/euros is out of the country spending them and I need to change money today. If you know a place where I can change in Barrio Norte/Recoleta, please send me a PM. Thanks a lot.

Our kids are exactly the same age. We live in Chacarita, close to a park, restaurant and a lot of transportation. We love it. It is still cheaper than other trendy areas. Caballito is also nice with kids but all depends on the kind of activities you will be doing and your budget. Belgrano is...

Coffee is imported so it moves with the dollar... to that you need to add the costs for getting the dollars to pay for imports, all the administrative costs to get the authorization to get the stuff out of the port, plus poor logistics and market power from the coffee importing firms in...

WTF!! Why (i) you make such a general awful statement about Latin American immigrants (ii) you feel entitled to a better treatment? cause you are American, cause you have a college degree or cause you were in the army saving us from the bad guys?

I totally agree with you... we bought last year in Buenos Aires a beautiful old PH for 1/8 of what we would have paid for something similar in Paris. We are not planning to sell it even when we move back home. I don't see prices of good apartment/houses in BA going south anytime soon... and if...

Have you read "El Chabon"? Ha has been here for SEVEN years and he knows better... fuerza bruta, de la guarda, Konex, El Rojas, underground places for rock, theater, etc all those places and theater groups do not exist. They are part of mythological Buenos Aires a much better place than actual...

If you want to count years... I lived in Buenos Aires twice, the first time only 15 years (from age 13 to 28) but I think that is not the point. I thought mentioning a few places people generally oversee (as Proa, Konex, Rojas) was a nice contribution but probably you know better. I have been...

Academic paper on the issue http://www.cepr.org/pubs/bulletin/dps/dp294.htm Of course, you may argue that they made sense at that time and they don't now but that is a completely different point.