The American Conservative
United States of Argentina
How inflation turned a rising power into a pauper By Philip Jenkins
- Unlike Zimbabwe, this story involves a flourishing Western country with a large middle class that nevertheless managed to spend its way into banana-republic status by means very similar to those now being proposed in Washington.
- Argentina is a political and economic joke, a global weakling legendary for endemic economic crises.
- A national decline on that scale did not just happen: it was the result of decades of struggle and systematic endeavor, led by the nation’s elite.
- It is hard, looking at the basket case Argentina has become, to imagine what an economic powerhouse the country was before World War II.
- The country was killed by political decisions, and the primary culprit was Juan Perón.
- Although he did not begin the process, he completed the transformation of Argentine government so that the state became both an object of plunder and an instrument for plunder.
- When honest money perishes, the society goes with it. We can’t say we weren’t warned.
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Un solo punto de disidencia: en Argentina no hay elite. Quienes deberían ocupar ese lugar lo resignaron a favor de los emergentes del sistema clientelista-prebendario.
La elite, a diferencia de lo que ocurre en Brasil, o en Chile, prefirió la derrota sin combate.
Clarito y sin anestesia, genial la deinición de lo que es el modelo peronista "a New Deal on steroids"
Argentina is a practical joke.
Me impactò lo clara que tiene este señor nuestra decadente historia a partir del primer cuarto del siglo XX, y la precisiòn de su informaciòn sobre la desastrosa influencia de las "ideas peronistas" en todos los gobiernos, desde el 45 a la fecha.
Excelente.
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