Opinion

Argentina's woes are not solved

ARTICLE - The new Argentine government of President Eduardo Duhalde has started decisively. It took little time to devalue the peso and sketch out a new economic strategy. But the policy remains full of holes. Rather than follow the successful recent…

Argentina's route to salvation

ARGENTINA - A competitive exchange rate, a more open economy and sound banks should be the priorities, says Ricardo Haussmann professor of economic development at Harvard in Todays's Financial Times.

Rojo: Keynesian policies are no longer an option

SPAIN - Perhaps the most influential economist in Spain in recent times, Luis Angel Rojo has devoting most of his professional career to servicing the Spanish economy in the country's central bank, the Bank of Spain. In an interview with El Pais…

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How to Dollarize in Argentina

‘How to Dollarize in Argentina’ by Kurt Schuler and Steve H Hanke. As the policies of the Argentine government are at a dead end and the peso is widely distrusted, Schuler and Hanke present their proposals for dollarization.

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Hanke's View on Argentina

In a paper published earlier this month by Cato in their foreign policy series Professor Steve Hanke outlines his views on solutions for the crisis in Argentina. In 1991 Professor Hanke advised the then Argentine government on the establishment of the…

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Who next after Cavallo?

ARTICLE - A mass exodus from Argentina's economy ministry, culminating in the resignation of the minister Domingo Cavallo, has left few contenders to manage the country's finances.

Euro launch reaches its final phase

ARTICLE - Securitas GmbH, a German armoured-car company, has suffered only a few mishaps since it began hauling the new euro cash in September. Some workers threw out their backs lugging the 20-kilo sacks of coins. Others accidentally dropped the heavy…

Euro Profits Bonanza

CENTRALBANKNET SPECIAL REPORT - Europe's national central banks stand to profit to the tune of billions of euros as a result of retiring Europe's existing paper currencies and introducing a single currency.

Afghan central bank - little left but dollar bills

ARTICLE - A dingy bank vault in the center of this destitute, dust-smudged capital holds the foreign-currency reserves of Afghanistan: $90,000, much of it in single dollar bills. The cash, all that remains of Afghanistan's plundered treasury, was simply…

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