{"id":45757,"date":"2019-04-29T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45757"},"modified":"2019-04-29T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:45:11","slug":"the-lesson-of-argentina-you-cant-stabilize-a-bankrupt-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45757","title":{"rendered":"The Lesson Of Argentina: You Can\u2019t Stabilize A Bankrupt Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dollarcollapse.com\/argentina-stabilize-bankrupt\/\">The Lesson Of Argentina: You Can\u2019t Stabilize A Bankrupt Economy<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the U.S. puts Republicans (the party of small government) in charge, and gets\u2026 trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see AND a revival of socialism among Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scary as this may seem, the real (and even scarier) lesson is that it\u2019s all inevitable: Beyond a certain level of indebtedness, even pro-business, sound money, small government leaders are powerless to stop the march to insolvency and currency crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest example is Argentina, which a few years ago elected a free-market president, only to see its debt explode and its currency crash. From Friday\u2019s Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/argentine-presidents-prospects-dim-with-those-of-his-countrys-economy-11556232855?mod=searchresults&amp;page=1&amp;pos=3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Argentine President\u2019s Prospects Dim With Those of His Country\u2019s Economy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Argentina\u2019s assets took a beating Thursday amid President Mauricio Macri\u2019s continuing struggle to tame rising prices and revive a shrinking economy, raising prospects that his left-wing predecessor could make a comeback in this year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The peso lost more than 5% of its value against the dollar in early trading Thursday, before regaining some ground in the afternoon. Argentina is now the world\u2019s second-riskiest borrower after crisis-hit Venezuela as indicated by credit default swaps, which are derivatives that pay holders when a borrower defaults on a debt payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Macri, who was elected in 2015 on promises to undo the interventionist policies of President Cristina Kirchner, announced new price controls last week to try to get Argentina\u2019s inflation under control. Mr. Macri has failed during his administration to contain inflation, which has risen to a 12-month pace of almost 55% in March from 25% at the start of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dollarcollapse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Argentina-inflation.jpg\" alt=\"Argentina inflation Argentina bankrupt\" class=\"wp-image-24642\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move sparked criticism that the president was abandoning market-friendly policies for short-term electoral considerations as Argentines grow increasingly impatient with rising prices. It also underscored the possibility that Mr. Macri could lose October\u2019s election, even if he faces the polarizing Mrs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lesson Of Argentina: You Can\u2019t Stabilize A Bankrupt Economy So the U.S. puts Republicans (the party of small government) in charge, and gets\u2026 trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see AND a revival of socialism among Democrats. Scary as this may seem, the real (and even scarier) lesson is that it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2251,1361,25750,1976,213,7544,21502,851,861],"class_list":["post-45757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-argentina","tag-bankruptcy","tag-cristina-kirchner","tag-currency-crisis","tag-dollar-collapse","tag-john-rubino","tag-mauricio-macri","tag-venezuela","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45759,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45757\/revisions\/45759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}