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Will Argentina, Turkey and Indonesia bring down the Fed's house of cards?

Emerging Market Pain May Be a Sign of Future U.S. Trouble Emerging markets are on fire. In the past week, Turkey’s currency crisis has been joined by similar financial conflagrations in Argentina and Indonesia. The central bank of the Gauchos raised its key interest rate to 60% (the world’s highest) from 45%, after …

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Argentina's sobering up – if not now, when?!

Argentina is definitely a country with a number of instructive examples in its history, reminiscent of the well-known expression “don’t try this at home.” Its economic past hides a whole series of harmful and destructive policies - state regulations and price controls, nationalization, accumulating budget deficits and defaulting on the country’s foreign debt…

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Argentina presents a lesson on how to destroy the beef industry

Paul Kuek We often complain about government and how it makes farming more difficult. But the situation could be much worse. Take Argentina, for example. The country’s producers were some of our biggest competitors just seven years ago.[1] In 2005, Argentine farmers produced more than 3.1 million tons of …

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