Argentina’s creditors complain that President Néstor Kirchner and Roberto Lavagna, his economy minister, act as if they are living on another planet.
Category: Argentina
Flavor of the Month
Argentina is coming in from the cold and investment is trickling back into the country. That still won’t help the government’s angry bondholders much.
The Struggle Must Go On
Argentina is booming again after years of decline. But it needs to attract foreign investment to keep the economy growing. And that will require a deal with bondholders and the International Monetary Fund.
Time to Talk, Seriously
The G-7 finance ministers have told Argentina to negotiate with creditors or risk losing further IMF support.
Putting Thought Into Action
Adam Lerrick is an academic who has cooked up ingenious solutions to financial problems and tested the ideas in real life – such as devising a way to unify Argentina’s bondholders to defend their rights.
A Survivor’s Tale
Ricardo Handley personifies the wheeling and dealing that characterized Argentina in the 1990s. Now, after years in obscurity, he is back in the public eye.
Going for Broke
Argentina extracted a favorable deal from the IMF but its victory could be short-lived if the country fails to address critical policy weaknesses.
The Next Paraguay
Argentine government debt negotiators now are fanning across the world in their first concerted attempt to open talks with bondholders. It is impossible to feel any sympathy for the Argentines, […]
Putting Argentina Back Together.
Argentina is close to a three year agreement with the International Monetary Fund that would open the way for a
deal with creditors owed $64 billion.What kind of deal should they expect?
