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Money Talks from The Economist

Money talks: Argentina in the black

Money Talks from The Economist

The Economist

Finance & Economics, Business News, Economy, News, Business

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Argentina's debt crisis seems finally to be coming to an end. Will its deal with creditors enable it to borrow abroad again at last? Should lenders to Venezuela, on the brink of its own default, applaud or shudder?

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From The Economist in London, this is Money Talks, a weekly conversation about news in the

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world of business finance and economics I'm Edward McBride the finance

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editor on today's show we'll focus on Argentina's 15 year old crisis, which appears finally to be coming to an end.

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Endless bickering with creditors after a mammoth default in 2001 had cut Argentina off from global

1:01.0

bond markets and even prompted yet another default Argentina's

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eighth in 2014 but at last piece seems to be breaking out. Joining me to explain all

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of this are Dan Rose and Heck our data editor who used to be based in Buenos Aires, and Brooke

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Unger are America's editor.

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So Dan, let's start with you.

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Why the sudden breakthrough?

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What's happened?

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Well, after 15 years of struggle, I think the key change was a change in power in Argentina.

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The default took place shortly before Nesta Kirchner took office in 2003.

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