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Irresponsible reporting. You have such reactions in under a dozen people out of hundreds of thousands or even millions. But, of course, stories like this will prompt untold numbers to resist getting vaccinated. Basically, NY Times is irresponsible to give this goofy story a platform, and...

Oh man, great quote: In an editorial, Il Giornale newspaper, owned by the Berlusconi family, called Maradona a “cheat, drug addict, alcoholic, violent sexist with women, tax evader and communist: the worst of the worst of the worst.” I want that quote on my tombstone...

This is a great conversation, thanks for posting this. Starts at 8:50 and goes to 32:00. Ends with an almost perfect summary: "the 'facade' that you see, it's not a facade, it's the ruins of what we had."

The proposed solution is right there in the article: The Fernández government must cut public spending. The pandemic is no excuse for economic mismanagement. You might disagree, but the article pretty clearly articulates its position that the government is spending well beyond its means...

A play taken directly from the Emperor Nero school of governance.

If you're consuming goods with imported inputs, that'll offset the savings you're seeing elsewhere. I usually use Hesperidina and a few other items as my inflation baseline, and it looks like it's about 1/3 cheaper right now than usual for those of us with greenbacks. I see something like...

"Contrarian economics"? If you're in Argentina, you don't need to look very far to find people who passionately believe in the exact opposite of the basic laws that have governed economic transactions since the dawn of humankind. Many have been elected to the Senate! You should hang around on...

Holy smoke! Great to see you back, Steve, I think I wasn't the only one who had feared you had croaked in some robbery or due to covid or something! Glad to see it's not the case! Long live the Hermit of the Pampas!

He's the president, she's not. The opportunity was there.

This is something else: She is worried about rising food prices amid a widening gap between the official value of the peso, at about 80 per dollar, with the black-market exchange rate, which reached 180 per dollar last week. So, when he was first elected, I somewhat hopefully suggested that...

People trace the decline of Argentina to the first military coup, the export replacement plans of the 1920s-1940s, the concentration of wealth, the great depression's effect on international trade, all sorts. But the single greatest factor was Juan Peron.

At a certain point, the logical end of this sort of argument is to advocate for the managed extinction of the entire human race. Animals eat each other, aside from gravity, water, carbon, oxygen, light, and a few other things, it's the basic fact of our planet.

I'm not so sure that google cares that much. I have a friend who got google fi and moved to Canada and used it on a daily basis for like 2 years so far no problems at all.

It's a very dark future we're looking at, imported food-wise. I've been to Cuba several times, and have to reservations about declaring it to be possibly worst food on earth. A generation of privation due to the embargo + communism has ruined must once have been a great cuisine. We're talking...

In addition to the above, I'd say: (1) Walk everywhere - there's no better way to learn the place; (2) Have something to do every day - a class, a lunch date, some sort of work, you need a purpose, otherwise you'll never put down roots; (3) Travel the country - Argentina's smaller cities/towns...

Makes a lot of sense that they had this guy resign - the last thing they want is a bunch of journalists focused on him, and possibly digging around.

At one point under Macri, the blue market had completely disappeared, as the peso was a normal currency. So, it's not inevitable that this disconnect exists. Amazing that it's now at 164 to the dollar. Real estate must be booming.

I'm generally a fairly ferocious opponent of chains - especially US chains - entering the BA food market, but given the pizza landscape in BA, I can actually sort of get behind Sbarro.

Wow. Very impressive.

A god given right to complain.