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I'm told some Argentine stocks are traded in overseas markets. Buy the stock in Argentina for pesos, sell in the U.S. or Europe for dollars or euros.

I wrote earlier that theft is a problem at some U.S. airports. In the U.S. organized crime has always been a problem that never has quite gone away. In earlier days the mafia was very powerful, today not as much, but other groups have risen since. The difference between Argentina and the U.S. is...

This is an old story. The problem airports are Boston, New York, and LAX. The mafia has for years infiltrated the unions who relentlessly rob passenger checked baggage and freight being shipped. I use to work in the business and talked to one baggage handler that saw it first hand. Not all the...

All the points are valid but everything is relative. Probably an average meal in a modestly priced Paris restaurant (food capital of the world in my opinion) is probably far better than what you will get at a very expensive eatery in B.A. Of course the steaks are better in B.A. but that's about it.

Its really in the best interests of the government. A uneducated and uniformed electorate will keep voting for the current regime or similar basically forever. Why offer a really different choice and confuse people. I can see an argument forming from the government that banning books is really...

This has nothing to do with Belgium(very good chocolate and beer so its not all bad), but seems to echo a lot of the thoughts here about an upcoming crisis in Argentina. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/315154/20120316/argentina-face-economic-deceleration-report.htm

I wasn't sure who flopy was, looked her up, not bad. Perhaps we should just start posting comments in the future and worry about the topic of the thread later as more often than not the comments have nothing to do with the topic at hand.

This is a very extreme move and indicates a government running out of options. You would have to question the mental stability of anybody willing to invest or buy property at the present time. It appears getting your money out is becoming more and more questionable. The Peso is clearly...

Populist governments like the current one in Argentina have been studied. I believe there was a recent study out of UCLA if memory serves me that found with this type of government, is that things at first go well rapid growth, reduction in poverty, etc. But in the end the populist economic...

I think this is a good start as any in explaining why Argentina is the way it is. The government is the cause of the bad economy but again that's just a reflection of the culture and the people that make it up. I think Northern Europe/North America have strong institutions and the people are...

I think its fair to say the policies of the government over the last decade would not be recommended by many economists. They were exceptionally lucky during the same period with constantly rising commodity prices and growing demand for manufactured products from Brazil. But when you implement...

Don't see the analogy. One big difference of course is the people who made the Iraq decisions are today largely discredited and out of office. The Kirchners were in office at the same time and 9 years latter still are and beginning yet another term, with talk of changing the constitution so they...

or having an AA meeting in a liquor store, or a weight-loss seminar in a pastry shop.

I think you are right that the same thing happens with media outlets favoring Democrats. However, if you look at the volume of bilge there is far more on the right wing outlets like Fox and talk radio. Also you are confusing freedom of press with concentration of ownership which is really a...

Can't say I agree with this. Fox news is really Faux News in my opinion. Its really just a mouth piece for the right wing of the Republican party. Its anything but fair and balanced. In wouldn't trust anything promoted there beyond the weather report. Its well know that anybody that says...

I doubt this will happen but getting your money when you want to sell in other than Pesos could become a reality and converting those into Euros or Dollars could be made very difficult if not impossible.

No I don't think its a fair assessment. The NYT finds it rather silly, see link below: http://loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/usa-usa-were-no-47/

Good discussion, the the OP should have mentioned that the tract is from an article in the Argentina Independent from 2008 written by Caitlyn Greene. The link to the article is here http://www.argentinaindependent.com/socialissues/environment/beyond-the-amazon-deforestation-in-argentina/ Sorry...