Category: Argentina

To save Argentina’s decimated banking system, economist Steve Hanke proposes repealing the Central Bank’s ability to issue pesos and giving solvent banks the ability to issue dollar-denominated notes.

A deepening financial crisis is adding another layer of complexity to Argentina’s troubles, made worse by the government’s extraordinary incompetence.

The upheaval in Argentina has terrified providers of trade finance who are charging more for loans or want borrowers to set up complex structures to lay off risk. Cheap money across the region is a thing of the past.

A group of American economists has dominated the debate over the policies that Latin American governments, especially Argentina’s, should adopt. Any policy they suggested would have worked better that what is in place.

It is not true that the collapse in Argentina has spared the financial markets in the rest of Latin America and beyond. The difference between this and previous international financial […]

With the Argentine economy quickly crumbling and the rules changing with such bewildering speed, little is certain in the debt negotiations of local companies and their creditors.

Against the odds, the best Latin American funds posted respectable returns last year. And despite Argentina?s troubles, economic fundamentals in the region?s main markets look strong and stocks and bonds stand to benefit.

Confidence in Argentina’s government, the judiciary, the currency and the banking system has collapsed. The public sector, banks, companies and individuals are nearly all bankrupt. Employment is becoming even scarcer; […]

Europe should represent a fantastic new opportunity for Latin American debt issuers, with the advent of a single currency and its increasingly integrated capital markets. However, the chaos in Argentina […]

For the real emerging market gamblers, Argentina offered up a wild ride last year. Many investors came out ahead, but the outlook for the emerging market asset class is uncertain.