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#Argentina: The long history of the collapsing peso. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinio

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

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#Argentina: The long history of the collapsing peso. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/groundhog-day-for-deadbeat-argentina-peso-imf-inflation-collapse-china-yuan-b97551c2

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0:00.0

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0:35.0

This is CBS I On The World, I'm John Batser, Argentina. What do these dates have in common?

0:41.7

1876, 1890, 1914, 1930, 1952, 1958, 1967, 1975, 1985, 1989, 2001, 2018.

0:54.8

Wrong. It's not about sports. It's about the collapse of the peso.

0:58.1

Marianna Stasio Grady joins me. She's the America's columnist and editor for the Wall Street Journal

1:03.4

editorial page, writing about Argentina, which here to four, as I approach it, I say, there's always

1:09.8

a money problem there. There's a debt problem. Mary's reported over the years. Mary, a very good

1:14.4

evening to all those peso collapses. It's routine matter. Are we facing another one? And what is

1:20.8

to be done? Good evening to you. Well, good evening, John. Yeah, Argentina has a problem in that it

1:27.1

tends to have these bloated government payrolls. And in order to meet the payroll, they obviously

1:35.2

have to raise tax revenue. And they don't raise enough tax revenue. They turn to the central bank

1:40.2

and ask it to print pesos. And of course, that is highly inflationary and it devalues the currency.

1:48.0

And once the inflation starts to gain momentum, it tends to spiral. So this has been going on for a

1:54.8

while. But just recently, it's over 100% annualized. And it doesn't look like there's any end in sight.

2:06.4

Yes. And I know that this spending is so infamous that the approach of the IMF for negotiations

2:14.3

is not a major story. It just happens. The IMF is negotiating alone to maintain the previous

2:20.2

loans. But there is a wrinkle here if I remember the reporting China's on the scene. How so?

2:26.0

First of all, we should note that Argentina has the largest loan in the world from the IMF. It's

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