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    How's everyone hanging in there with the cost of living these days?

    Prices: Yesterday the Teatro Colon opened individual ticket sales for opera, orchestra, ballet. Last year I paid a little less than 100 USD for TWO tickets. This year the price was 96 pesos , or close to the same price, same location, for ONE ticket.
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    Bilingual schools advice

    I believe Northlands is around $24,000 per year; Saint Andrews apparently more...Both bilingual
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    Coffee and cake prices

    devaluation of ONLY 30%?
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    Coffee and cake prices

    In Argentina you can't have your cake and eat it too -- you can't afford the price
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    Coffee and cake prices

    Consumers can boycott some items, but not everything. What I don't understand is why people are willing to pay such high prices for items that are not necessary. I can understand paying a high price for a cup of coffee in a cafe once in a while but why waste so much money on a piece of cake -...
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    Coffee and cake prices

    Seriously, 4,000 per piece? Did the shop assistant mark you as a naive rich foreigner? Can that be a real price? 4,000 pesos for a handkerchief?
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    Milei’s quest to defuse Argentina’s currency control bomb

    Trump will announce new tariffs tomorrow. Will Argentina be on the list? He said he intends to act against countries that place tariffs on US goods.
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    Argentina's "anything-but-Libertarian exchange controls..." IMF meets in BsAs

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    Get Out! Live music, film, and theater in Buenos Aires this weekend

    When I saw the title I thought it meant get out of Argentina!
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    Argentina’s Rich Neighbors Cut Back on Visits Due to Strong Peso

    I suspect the word is not out yet in Europe and North America that Argentina is now expensive.
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    IMF negotiations stall, reviving debate on floating exchange rate band

    The issue is the refusal of the Leader to allow a free market, capitalist peso. Ironic, no?
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    Does anyone else feel there might be a peso collapse this year?

    What if the IMF money arrives before then?
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    Does anyone else feel there might be a peso collapse this year?

    The 11 billion IMF loan is dependent on dropping the CEPO. That will surely cause the dollar to gain ground against the peso.
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    Meatpacking powerhouse Argentina faces unprecedented crisis

    Meatpacking powerhouse Argentina faces unprecedented crisis
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    Argentina's "anything-but-Libertarian exchange controls..." IMF meets in BsAs

    Read this: https://thehill.com/opinion/5101981-argentina-economic-crisis-javier-milei/
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    Argentina's "anything-but-Libertarian exchange controls..." IMF meets in BsAs

    https://en.mercopress.com/2025/01/23/imf-mission-arrives-in-buenos-aires-to-discuss-us-11-billion-loan?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss&ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN) According to Milei, Argentina would end its anything-but-Libertarian exchange rate controls if the...
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    She asked him for a favor, and he ended up in Devoto

    The sentence would have been far worse in other Latin American countries.
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    Prices for all goods and services can now be shown in USD (or other foreign currencies) as from Friday

    Four Seasons Hotel prices its brunch in USD (U$S 149) Price is the same at Beverly Hills Four Seasons
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    A swinger cruise in Argentina departed from Ushuaia to Antarctica

    Does the $12,000 price tag include STD testing and treatment?
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    Milei doubles down on Argentina’s unorthodox currency policy

    well maybe 300 years. Patience. The Leader knows what he is doing
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