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Hey. Was it between Gurruchaga or Thames?

As an Irishman I would like to see Ireland win but I have a feeling it is England's to win but Ireland are playing home. If Ireland play like they did in the first half against Wales and somehow overcome their depressingly common tendency to melt away in the second half, things could look good...

Looking at what the trade unions are saying, I think what is happening is that wages are not increasing with inflation. Anyway, you can't win a race with inflation, you can only tame inflation. However the government has for years attempted to keep up but has as is expected, fuelled it more. Now...

Should the Dollar not have peaked by now? It's really shooting up the past few days which I find astonishing. Now I am curious how much is seasonal. I'm back end of February and it if is seasonal mostly, the way it is going, I would be surprised if it drops back below 7 by then.

For the record: us Irish are more fun! :)

GS_Dirtboy I give you credit for your patience in this and anyone else in Argentina that has to go through all those hoops to buy foreign currency. What a messed up situation the current administration have created.

It is here: http://www.facebook.com/dolarblue?fref=ts It's the spread that is the most interesting aspect of this whole debate. At 50% that is really big. Yes the Blue goes up during holiday season and goes down a bit after but the spread is increasing regardless of the time of the year...

From the first page or so, I loved the whole "Oh yes Bs As is a safe city except for this petty crime, this con and don't do this as you would do in other cities and always be on your guard" With that reference Bs As is not a safe city. That should not put you off totally but try not to sugar...

it is true that Argentina reduced its poverty rate exceptionally well in the past 10 years but how much of that was attributable to the Kirchners? First of all Argentina suffered an economic calamity from trying to keep itself a high-cost, dollar-pegged economy. It failed and in the tailspin a...

Very weird. You could make up so many hypotheses about the whole thing. Maybe he met a lovely Argentine woman who he spurned who bided her time to rob him, take his clothes (and possibly burn in cackling away somewhere in the city) and leaving his documents as a sign to him to leave the country...

I'm returning in March for 3 weeks from Ireland. I intend to buy dollars at the post office here using my euros (no commission) and change to pesos with the blue rate. This makes a profit of about 70 centavos on the Euro Blue rate. And the dolar blue has its own Facebook page and look at people...

The whole thing has pointers for today. The war was a stupid political maneouvre by a discredited junta to distract people from other pressing issues and galvanize the people in a populist upsurge. The current Kirchner administration do something similar. Inflation, crime, those things people...

Oh well, all good rickety fire hazards must come to an end.

The EU deserves it. Excluding the issues in the Eurozone, the EU has been a fundamentally positive institution for Europe and the world. It may not have been the sole reason for no wars between its members (but nevertheless failed to prevent the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia) but it has...

Exactly. You may not like some of the media out there but with a wide and varied amount you can find something for you

One just has to look up Google News and see the litany of articles on Chavez shutting down opposition media. I despise Fox News and its manipulation of facts at times. It's nasty at times but I don't think it should be shut down. Media should be free. People should have the right to access the...

I have no doubt that the voting machines and basic process of pushing the button on the day are fair. My statement was about how lopsided everything else was - lack of equal access to state media for an example. We see now in the United States about Romney and Obama trying to out fundraise each...

Does this happen often? I don't live in Buenos Aires anymore but back in late summer. As a graduate of History and Political Science, I'd love to be a part of this sometime!

Furthermore, I am convinced that if it was a free and fair election, he would not have won. Nobody could live under such crime and economic malaise and not hold the ruler of 14 years accountable.

You know, I don't like the man at all, or his policies. He's an extremely disruptive and polarizing figure. In many countries there are politicians like himself too and we can rightly have an opinion one way or the other about them. What I didn't like was his blatant manipulation of the...