Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Argentina's room for maneuver is very limited. It's a small country
> with big debts. It has less wiggle room than a larger country, like
> Brazil.
About 15 years (give or take 5) ago in the WSJ there was a fascinating article proposing deliberate default as a strategy for third-world nations, and the example it gave was Argentina. The writer imagined an Economics Minister named Aquinas-Marx. I can't remember many of the details now. Does anyone on the list remember it?
Also -- is Argentina really that small of a country?
Carrol