Cash and checks: Argentina’s next IMF loan
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The Economist
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
For the 23rd time the International Monetary Fund will cough up, this time to the tune of $20bn. But the reforms stipulated by the loan, alongside promising changes already under way, suggest this time might be different. Near America’s border with Mexico, high-speed chases have become more common—and more deadly (9:08). And myriad uncertainties are making Europe a continent of preppers (15:08).
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| 1:02.4 | But a strange thing happened when our correspondent went there. |
| 1:05.1 | She found very few people trying to cross the border, but an alarming rise in police cars driving dangerously fast. |
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| 1:18.4 | For Europe's citizens and its governments, |
| 1:20.6 | that uncertainty is manifesting in readiness. |
| 1:23.8 | It's becoming a continent of preppers. |
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