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http://www.ambito.com/noticia.asp?id=821011 These are two boards that are in charge of ensuring media groups comply with the law, most notably (and polemically) the Ley de Medios, which aimed at busting up media monopolies (such as Grupo Clarín). Given how the media plays a huge role forming...

... for the rest of us! Izno and Paup are MIA, so I'll do the honours:

Greece is now in a situation similar to Argentina in the late 1990s: it has lost a third of its GDP, with 27% unemployment, mass poverty and families living on the street eating out of dumpsters. And similar to Argentina, Greece's financial depression comes after years of IMF implemented...

In spite of the source, this debate between Fraga (UNEN) and Feletti (FpV) was actually quite good: 1. Moderator was good, very hands off, just let the debaters talk. (Surprising for the very partisan 678) 2. Both debaters were very knowledgeable and courteous. 3. It's fun to see role...

Gold stars for Baexpats Urban Achievers who can pick up the difference between these two articles from today's papers: Clarín: Fiscal Deficit Increases: It was ARS $20.799 billion in [October] Ámbito Financero: October Closed with a Deficit of Over ARS $15 Billion Before y'all anxiously fill...

Happy Sovereignty Day forum! Today's question: do you get Argentine holidays off or are you a slave to the mother country's timeclock? Talk amongst yourselves...

The anti-peronist coalition officially self-destructed today with the withdrawal of Elisa "Chanchita" Carrió from the bag of cats formerly known as FAUNEN, thus leaving no viable challenger to prevent the Peronistas from returning for another round of "Let's Destroy the Working Class". When...

Hey inflation fans! For the expats here that are fiscal conservatives (in my experience, the vocal majority here), the panorama for significant change has become strikingly less promising this week. CABA Mayor Mauricio Macri-- perhaps the 2015 candidate most different from kichnerismo-- said...

Hey forum! As you all know, Joe is leaving us. (If only we had been nicer to him!) This obviously leaves several holes, not only in our hearts and souls, but also in the overall Baexpats operational scheme. To attempt to palliate the pain, perhaps we should nominate a new pollster (such...

Hey economics fans, time for our latest instalment of "Argentina Has Its Financial Head Up Its Keester": Exhibit A: Ámbito Financiero (sort of the Argentine Wall Street Journal) published an article this week on the German budget: Berlin defends its zero debt policy The Background The IMF...

Scandal at BAExpats! Documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal "The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls...." ... I guess this explains the...

Country risk dipped below 600 for the first time since 2008, and Argentina can now issue sovereign bonds in the 8% range (vs. 8.75% for the YPF deal). (source) In laymens terms, this means that people are now more willing to buy bonds from Argentina in spite of the threat of default, and the...

So it being Padre's day and all, El Suegro (hereinafter, "Phil") came over to the Rooney Bunker yesterday for some asado and futbol. Since there are no recorded transcripts to share with you wonderful people, here are the Top 5 Moments: 1. -00.03.36, Argentina 0, Bosnia 0: Phil informs me that...

As the media coverage for Boudou-gate kicks into high gear, I had this passing thought: Could you imagine an alternate universe where this other Vice President would be put on trial (for much more blatantly heinous crimes): At least this once, regardless of how the trial turns out, Argentina...

Cher one-ups Baexpats, who have been ominously silent on Cristina The Teddy Bear Killer's cold-blooded ursal cruelty. Won't somebody think of the children?

Ever attentive as always to BAexpats advice, CFK has hit the reverse button on the printing presses: Megamaid has gone from blow to suck: http://www.ambito.co...a.asp?id=742760 So far this year, the Central Bank has pulled a whopping ARS $61 billion (with a "b") out of the economy, and...

After a couple of months of stagnation, the peso is finally starting to lose value against the dollar. Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing? What are the advantages of a weak peso (e.g., more exports, more jobs)? Do they outweigh the disadvantages (e.g., imports get more expensive...

For those of you keeping score at home, both the official rate and the Blue are now exactly where they were a month ago. What does this mean? Is Kiciloff finally heeding ARBound's plans for Clintonising the Argentine economy? Has CFK been reading too much Von Hayek? Or is this just another...

Already having suffered extraordinary rendition, waterboarding, hunger strikes and other untold tortures, the prisoners of Guantánamo Bay are now being threatened with their most terrifying form of mistreatment yet: Uruguayan food. Even though most of them have not been charged with any crime...

Further Kirchner economic mismanagement: since the Central Bank has tightened monetary policy, banks have had to raise wholesale interest rates again to attract more pesos, and they're running short: http://www.ambito.com/diario/noticia.asp?id=733181 I.e., if you have ARS $1m you can park it...