Argentina As A Contrarian Bet? – | Seeking Alpha
The Argentinean economy is stagnating and suffering from a host of problems, like high inflation, important market restrictions in international trade and energy and lack of access to foreign capital. […]
Latin America’s populist governments waste golden opportunities
Trouble in South America. For every Brazil, successfully transformed by a left-leaning president, there are bad leftist governments (Argentina) and then outright disasters (Venezuela). It’s such a waste as even […]
Chile’s interesting example
As we’ve argued elsewhere, the quality of government matters much more than it’s ‘quantity.’ Chile is a definite example of this, and provides some interesting lessons, lessons from evidence based […]
Brazil an opportunity?
Here is a pitch from Money Morning. We’re not entirely sold, but there are some interesting titbits we’ll discuss at the end.
Latin America was doing relatively well in the crisis. Until they pull stunts like this
Despite falling commodity prices, too little investment and doctering inflation figures (in some cases, like Argentina), the continent was holding up relatively well, which is quite an achievement in itself […]