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Strategies & Market Trends : VOLTAIRE'S PORCH-MODERATED

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To: stockman_scott who wrote (39193)7/18/2001 10:50:05 AM
From: Jim Willie CB  Read Replies (1) of 65232
 
yeah right, Argentina is talking tough now

option#1: default on debt
future aid will be too expensive, from bad risk past
consequence would be big quick devaluation of currency,
and big quick discount drop in Merval stock market
(just like Russia)

option#2: austerity payoff of all debt
future will be full of recession and worse
from exhausting capital
(take all the food to pay the landlord, and all starve tomorrow)

they are getting killed from currency, pegged to US$
they cannot compete on price with the nearest neighbors

their solution is to devalue and depeg
what do they do?
talk tough
they are toast

next to the toaster oven is Brazil
the hardship from excessively strong currency spreads over borders
/ jw
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