24 de junio de 2008

Otro Default

"Already, a good share of Argentina's debt is in default. What else do you call it when a government that owes over $30 billion in inflation-indexed debt manipulates its consumer-price statistics? Through a variety of crude measures (such as firing its top statisticians), the government is publishing an understated inflation rate that is used for calculating indexation payments."

Lo dice el Wall Street Journal

"If today's tepid growth in the U.S., Japan and Europe begins to take hold in emerging markets, Argentina's miserable indexed bond holders may soon have company."

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