When inflation is not really *inflation*

[SaraSara]

-- First it was: "price tension"

-- Then came " price reaccommodation"

-- After that, "price modification" (http://fortunaweb.com.ar/aunque-boudou-la-niegue-los-analistas-dicen-que-en-marzo-la-inflacion-promedia-2/)

-- And now, "price adjustment" (http://www.buenosairesherald.com/BreakingNews/View/29029)

Anything to avoid the dreaded "i" word.

 

[blackburn]

price of flights.....I digress....thought this was about inflation or whetever you want to call it

 

[marksoc]

By the way, bus travel here is not Greyhound. Bus travel here is very comfortable, and a lot of times preferable to air travel: buses stop in a lot of places, you need only to hop on, without security screenings and you don't need to get to far away airports. In overnight buses, you get food, good seats (in super-cama services great seats), some movies and you can see the scenery in the morning.

I like flying, but travelling by bus in Argentina is a very nice way to move.

 

[mendozanow]

I agree that buses in Argentina are amongst the best in the world, and they are good for leaving on time. However, there is now a trend among some of the bus lines like CATA and Andesmar not to give food for the basic semi-cama, so be careful. Unless you are taking a premium ticket, take some food along as they often now do not serve food even if the ticket seller tells you there is a meal (my recent experience with both CATA and ELRapido).

Also, because so many of the bus lines are trying to concentrate on deluxe service, the quality of the buses for the basic services (cleaning, service, repairs) has seriously decreased over the past few years. In the last 24 months, I have had 8 of the 12 bus trips I have taken with the Andesmar /Tramat/ElRapido chain break down, and the bus has had to be repaired while the passengers wait in the bus or the passengers have been transferred to another bus after considerable delay.

That said, travel by bus is usually very good and comfortable in Argentina, and certainly far ahead of other bus service in Latin America (except for Mexico, which also has excellent bus service).

Cheers y suerte!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[marksoc]

A neat trick is to take a common (semi-cama) bus that goes to a far away destination like Formosa even if you need to travel only to Rosario, instead of taking a Buenos Aires-Rosario bus, so they will serve you a dinner anyway, and in Rosario (your original destination) you get down of the bus without any problems.

 

[Alzinho]

Got to agree with the general praise of Argentinian bus services.
Have taken quite a few longish distance trips - Iguazu (many times) and Corrientes - and only suffered a couple of breakdowns which led to 4/5 hour delays.

Not cheap though - once I got my permanent residence I switched to flying from Iguazu....it was only 50 pesos more than taking the bus!

 

[SaraSara]

Now the Interior Minister Randazzo says that "it is unfair to blame inflation on the government". It is really the fault of unnamed "monopolistic and oligopolitic sectors".

So, it appears that there IS inflation, after all. Shocking news...!

For Spanish speakers, here's a priceless example of Governmental reasoning:

"En un intento por desligar al oficialismo de la inflación, el ministro del Interior, Florencio Randazzo, sostuvo que "es injusto" responsabilizar al Gobierno por el aumento de los precios.

"Hay sectores oligopolicos y monopólicos que establecen precios. Pero ponerle la responsabilidad al Gobierno es totalmente injusto cuando cumple con todas las condiciones siempre exigidas a cualquier gobierno", dijo el funcionario en declaraciones a radio Mitre.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1249771

 

[nikad]

Now the Interior Minister Randazzo says that "it is unfair to blame inflation on the government". It is really the fault of unnamed "monopolistic and oligopolitic sectors".

So, it appears that there IS inflation, after all. Shocking news...!

For Spanish speakers, here's a priceless example of Governmental reasoning:

"En un intento por desligar al oficialismo de la inflación, el ministro del Interior, Florencio Randazzo, sostuvo que "es injusto" responsabilizar al Gobierno por el aumento de los precios.

"Hay sectores oligopolicos y monopólicos que establecen precios. Pero ponerle la responsabilidad al Gobierno es totalmente injusto cuando cumple con todas las condiciones siempre exigidas a cualquier gobierno", dijo el funcionario en declaraciones a radio Mitre.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1249771

If I hadn´t read this on most major newspapers I would have thought it was an April Fool´s Day joke...

 

[bigmike]

http://www.inflacionverdadera.com/ seems like an interesting effort to truly quantify the inflation here in Argentina.

I'm not an economist (but I play one on TV... ), so I haven't done a deep investigation into their numbers and methodology.

 

[gouchobob]

Now the Interior Minister Randazzo says that "it is unfair to blame inflation on the government". It is really the fault of unnamed "monopolistic and oligopolitic sectors".

So, it appears that there IS inflation, after all. Shocking news...!

For Spanish speakers, here's a priceless example of Governmental reasoning:

"En un intento por desligar al oficialismo de la inflación, el ministro del Interior, Florencio Randazzo, sostuvo que "es injusto" responsabilizar al Gobierno por el aumento de los precios.

"Hay sectores oligopolicos y monopólicos que establecen precios. Pero ponerle la responsabilidad al Gobierno es totalmente injusto cuando cumple con todas las condiciones siempre exigidas a cualquier gobierno", dijo el funcionario en declaraciones a radio Mitre.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1249771

The governments whole handling of the inflation issue is an example of a Big Lie.

From Wikepedia

The Big Lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf for a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously".