Being Tall in Argentina: Reflective Thoughts and a Life Lesson
Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, I play basketball sometimes, no I don’t hit my head everywhere, yeah planes suck, no we’re not all this tall in Australia. I’m 6″5, 198cm, placing me a full 26cm or...
View ArticleMary O’Grady Would Like You To Think of Her As a Serious Intellectual
MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY: You may have seen her around. Her weekly opinion pieces – republished in right-wing publications like La Nación – are such unabashed hackery that it’s inevitable you’ll have...
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Argentina’s Currency Devaluation: The Hidden Strategic Genius Everyone Missed
Cristina’s new economics team recently changed the government’s approach to currency and capital controls, making some concessions to the more affluent voters, allowing them to swap up to 20% of their...
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Argentina’s Energy Industry: From Menem’s Privatization to Kirchner’s...
Welcome to my summary of the power crisis, starting with Kirchner’s 2004 Energy Plan and ending with the current outages. In this article, I give you a contextual overview and examine Néstor Kirchner’s...
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The YPF Nationalization: Measuring Sturzenegger & The Opposition’s Credibility
So that’s that. Repsol and the Argentine government announced that they have agreed to terms regarding compensation for the 2012 nationalization of YPF, ending the long-running dispute over the Spanish...
View ArticleFarmacity vs. the National Government: The Battle For Economic Control
“In the politics of medication, appropriate to the health of the community, we must prioritize that he who is human does not choose to consume medicine, but that his consumption is out of necessity,...
View ArticleConfidence From the End of the Kirchner Era: Is ‘Being Over’ Enough?
As the October election approaches, pundits from both sides are crafting easily digestible narratives for their readers. The process happens over time – ideas are floated, slogans are tested and slowly...
View ArticlePicking Zannini is Like Choosing Karl Rove as a Running Mate
Decisions can be simultaneously surprising and unexpected. To some degree, theory and practice are always in a sort of tension. Politics is very much this way, where capable politicians are limited in...
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The Clarín Monster: Has Macri Sold Out On Economic Growth?
Welcome to the first instalment in my three-part series on Macri’s policies for economic growth. My goal is undergo some deeper analysis of important sectors of the new economy: telecommunications,...
View ArticleDid Vanoli, Kicillof And Cristina Heist Argentina’s Central Bank?
Last Friday, Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio called on 13 government officials to testify as to why the hell the Central Bank (BCRA) sold swap futures contracts to exchange house ROFEX at below market...
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