Macri, the economy and Dutch disease: Argentinian angst

I can’t seem to stop worrying about Argentina in its election year.

Ever since I first met with members of Cristina Kirchner’s administration – the henchmen that populated the state banks and ministries – I’ve been privately supporting the forces of their opposition.

That the ultimately successful opposition transpired to be a real breath of fresh air – Mauricio Macri’s Cambiemos – took me further out of my usually neutral position of observer.

Their victory – and the Macri administration’s attempts to dismantle the economic and financial mess they inherited – has verged on the heroic.

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