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Latin America

bemildred

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4. Yep.

Reply to forest444 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 1, 2016, 05:33 AM

Jan 2016

Just like when Raygun "won" the election against Jimmy Carter in 1980, all of a sudden all kinds of things that Jimmy would have been ripped to shreds over were OK ... No lies were questioned, ruling by decree was suddenly democratic, the main thing was to stop reform in its tracks.

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Macri orders that Argentine inflation figures not be published until further notice. [View all] forest444 Dec 2015 OP

Have never heard of this trick, not once. How can he get by with these things? Unbelievable. Judi Lynn Dec 2015 #1

Macri's counting on Argentine big media (and by extension, foreign media) to give him a pass. forest444 Dec 2015 #2

Yep. bemildred Jan 2016 #4

That's a good analogy - October surprise and all. forest444 Jan 2016 #5

And a happy new year to you too, Forest. nt bemildred Jan 2016 #6

Seriously? Marksman_91 Dec 2015 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Judi Lynn Jan 2016 #7

Stopping publishing fictional inflation figures is a start, but publishing real ones would be better Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2016 #8

Just the ones pertaining to CPI. forest444 Jan 2016 #9

The more light we get on this, forest444, the better. Thank you, so much. n/t Judi Lynn Jan 2016 #10