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5. Do you REALLY want to follow Argentina's example?

Tue Jun 12, 2012, 04:42 AM

Jun 2012

Five different currencies in the last half century, with inflation so bad that the current currency (peso convertible) is equal to 10 trillion of the first currency (peso moneda nacional) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_peso , and an extremely high crime rate to boot https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportPDF.aspx?cid=10748.

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Greece's 'potato movement' grows in power [View all] tabatha Jun 2012 OP

Interesting. n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2012 #1

I m starting to believe mick063 Jun 2012 #2

Let's hope Greece and Argentina's examples spread worldwide. Zalatix Jun 2012 #3

Do you REALLY want to follow Argentina's example? Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #5

Where we're going right now is worse. Zalatix Jun 2012 #6

There are plutocrats in Argentina as well Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #9

appreciate your post, complete with facts and links. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2012 #7

Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team) Jessica3344 Jun 2012 #4

Individualism is mrely brutish apoliticism; tralala Jun 2012 #8