Hanke’s Top Five Worst Inflations: COVID-19 is Front and Center
Each day, I accurately measure inflation for countries experiencing elevated inflation rates using high-frequency data and the principle of Purchasing Power Parity. Below is my li ...
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How much quarantine does the economy endure?
La Voz - A clothing store advises its employees that it will not pay for the 11 days of quarantine on March. A hamburger restaurant fires its 21 eventual workers. A kinesiologist' ...
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In Argentina, coronavirus brings more economic pain
Aljazeera - On a sunny Thursday afternoon last month, Gloria Mongelos sat on a plastic chair beside a small, run-down house she had turned into a soup kitchen in Monte Grande, a l ...
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Financial bubbles, crisis and coronavirus
El Economista - The financial crisis caused by the Covid-19 can be compared with the last financial crisis in 2008 and with the crash of the Stock Exchange in 1987. However, it pr ...
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What would be the effects of a default on the Argentine economy
Argentina has a tough debt renegotiation ahead of private creditors, amid a local drop in consumption and a complex global context due to the expansion of the coronavirus pandemic ...
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Market turmoil complicates Argentina foreign debt restructuring
Argentina’s new Peronist government has been caught off guard by global financial market turmoil at a crucial point in its talks with creditors to restructure more than $100bn of ...
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POLL-Argentine inflation seen at 2.3% in February
NASDAQ (Reuters) - Argentina's consumer prices likely rose 2.3% in February versus a month earlier, according to the average from a Reuters poll of analysts, though inflation was ...
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Argentina Stares Down Yet Another Default
Foreign Affairs - How President Alberto Fernández handles Argentina’s foreign debt crisis will define his legacy. When he took office in December 2019, the South American country ...
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Impact of Alberto Fernández’s speech: what economists and businessmen said
INFOBAE - President Alberto Fernández opened this Sunday at the beginning of the 138th period of ordinary sessions of the Congress with a strong message in which there was a call ...
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Will Paraguay Follow Argentina’s Economic Decline?
Statements by a former minister sparked a debate which is worth addressing for several reasons Panampost - Although there was a moment in history when there was talk of the “Argen ...
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