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The Convertibility

DEV Community·thesythesis.ai·20 days ago
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Five times in forty years, Argentina started the same reform sequence and watched it collapse. Milei's version has four structural differences that no prior cycle had. The question is whether they survive what all the others did not. The last time Argentina attempted economic regime change, Domingo Cavallo pegged the peso to the dollar at one to one. Inflation collapsed from three thousand percent to three percent. GDP grew at nearly six percent annually. Then the fixed rate strangled exports, provincial deficits never stopped, debt doubled to over a hundred and forty billion dollars, the IMF pulled its funding, and bank deposits were frozen. GDP contracted twenty-eight percent. Poverty exceeded fifty percent. In Argentina, the word convertibility still means a reform that looked like a miracle and ended in catastrophe. Javier Milei has governed for twenty-eight months. Annual inflation has fallen from two hundred and eleven percent to thirty-three percent.…

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