Belle Epoque Of Gran Argentina

[Hybrid Ambassador]

The tragedy of Argentina

A century of decline

One hundred years ago Argentina was the future. What went wrong?
Feb 15th 2014 | BUENOS AIRES | From the print edition

Yesterday’s news

WHEN the residents of Buenos Aires want to change the pesos they do not trust into the dollars they do, they go to a cueva, or “cave”, an office that acts as a front for a thriving illegal exchange market. In one cueva near Florida Street, a pedestrian thoroughfare in the centre of the city, piles of pesos from previous transactions lie on a table. A courier is getting ready to carry the notes to safety-deposit boxes.
This smallish cueva handles transactions worth $50,000-75,000 a day. Fear of inflation and of further depreciation of the peso, which fell by more than 20% in January, will keep demand for dollars high. Few other ways of making money are this good. “Modern Argentina does not offer what you could call an institutional career,” says one cueva owner.

http://www.economist.com/node/21596582/print

 

[ElQueso]

About the only thing I thought was completely wrong was this statement in the last paragraph: "The Kirchners’ redistributive policies have helped the poor..."

Absolutely ridiculous. I know too many poor to know they don't feel like they have been helped. Just that they were promised to be helped and feel like Cristina let them down.

But the rest of the article seemed to be a pretty good summary, touching the "high" points of what's happened here. It is such a complicated issue that a single summarizing article is difficult to bring it all into focus.

 

[Hybrid Ambassador]

But didn't the Queen Chrissie gave futbol para todos and food price subsidy to the poor folks?

 

[Rich One]

A well known Union leader said Give us Jobs not Planes Trabajar!

La decada Ganada

 

[ajoknoblauch]

But didn't the Queen Chrissie gave futbol para todos and food price subsidy to the poor folks?

Soccer for Everybody enriches lives...well, the pockets of a handful, anyway.

 

[Matiasba]

A well known Union leader said Give us Jobs not Planes Trabajar!

La decada Ganada

do you have any idea is how difficult is to create jobs? just take a look to developed economies and look at their unemployment rate! It is VERY hard to create genuine jobs, very very very. And this government made a 25% unemployment rate in 2003 to 6% today. And if you say it is INDEC numbers I challenge you to find one single private anti K consultant of other numbers. The numbers says the country with these eleven years of continue growth have increased its manufactured exports, and its industrial components, which implies, genuine jobs en blanco.

Soccer for Everybody enriches lives...well, the pockets of a handful, anyway.

how does the state, or the government, get money by nationalisating soccer? where does that suposedly money come from? (since no advertising is allowded).

 

[Rich One]

do you have any idea is how difficult is to create jobs? just take a look to developed economies and look at their unemployment rate! It is VERY hard to create genuine jobs, very very very. And this government made a 25% unemployment rate in 2003 to 6% today. And if you say it is INDEC numbers I challenge you to find one single private anti K consultant of other numbers. The numbers says the country with these eleven years of continue growth have increased its manufactured exports, and its industrial components, which implies, genuine jobs en blanco.




how does the state, or the government, get money by nationalisating soccer? where does that suposedly money come from? (since no advertising is allowded).

1. Of Course It's La Decada Ganada !
2. What About Grondona and AFA?

 

[Matiasba]

1. Of Course It's La Decada Ganada !
   
2. What About Grondona and AFA?

the money from futbol goes to AFA, not to argentine government, not to Futbol para todos. Futbol para todos is an expense to this government, they use every peoples money to buy the rights to provide a free service. In fact, they took away the bussiness Clarin had and made it accesible for everyone. The government PAYS, to have this program, how can someone get profit with this, since there is no advertising?

 

[ElQueso]

One problem Argentina has is that it buys into this concept that "governments create jobs." The only jobs that governments "create" are government jobs, and the money to pay for those jobs comes from the people who don't have government jobs.

Like it or not, entrepreneurs create jobs. This government (and many others past), and a result of the Peronist attitude that the government solve everything, hinders entrepreneurs from creating jobs. That's why it's so difficult to create jobs here.

 

[Rich One]

One problem Argentina has is that it buys into this concept that "governments create jobs." The only jobs that governments "create" are government jobs, and the money to pay for those jobs comes from the people who don't have government jobs.

Like it or not, entrepreneurs create jobs. This government (and many others past), and a result of the Peronist attitude that the government solve everything, hinders entrepreneurs from creating jobs. That's why it's so difficult to create jobs here.

Bravo El Queso, the govenment has created thousands of Public sector jobs, Also 50 congressmen have been accused of Nepotism they hired wife's , relatives, children , etc as advisers. Congressmen are part of Government Menem hired his son Carlitos Nair , who is in a drug recovery clinic as adviser.

80 % of the Job creation comes from small enterprises Pymes