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From Alejandro Rodriguez, my correspondent from the concluding post
We are ***! People are withdrawing funds from fixed income mututal funds (which concord ARS 300 billion of CB brusk term debt). Yestedary solitary people withdrew 4% from those funds as well as ran to the dollar today. Peso falls 5% to $24.00 ARS/USD. Next footstep is a ran against term deposits inwards banks. Next tuesday the CB has to coil over ARS 680 billion of brusk term debt. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 conservative gauge is that ARS 150 billion volition non locomote rolled over as well as volition ran immediatelly to the dollar. No International Monetary Fund bailout volition halt the crisis but it volition definitively help us inwards the aftermath.

PS: If you lot desire to know what involvement rates are instantly (like if anyone cares nearly them anmore)

maturity APR v days 81% 41 days 45%

PS2: CB trying to command the FX every bit I write email. Down to $23.00 ARS/USD.
Coincidentally, every bit Argentine Republic started this spiral, I was at the Hoover conference on "Currencies, Capital, as well as Central Bank Balances," as well as thinking nearly it peculiarly during the session on "Capital Flows, the IMF’s Institutional View as well as Alternatives" featuring Jonathan Ostry, who bravely came to defend the IMF's Institutional View, Sebastian Edwards, as well as John Taylor, moderated yesteryear George Shultz.

Briefly, inwards the skillful quondam days, the International Monetary Fund was solidly for the Postwar Order that viewed upper-case missive of the alphabet restricitons -- laws stopping people from investing inwards a province or taking their investments out -- were bad things as well as to locomote avoided at all times.

That changed, as well as the novel view, every bit summarized compactly yesteryear John Taylor, is much to a greater extent than friendly toward "capital catamenia management":
what is novel nearly the Institutional View is that “capital flows postulate active policy management,” which includes “controlling their book as well as composition guide using upper-case missive of the alphabet line of piece of occupation concern human relationship restrictions.” (p. 8) The Institutional View document (IMF 2012) defines key terms as well as gives examples. For example,.. CFMs so include “capital controls” that “discriminate on the footing of residency” as well as macro-prudential policies that differentiate on the footing of currency (p. 40). ..[The quotes as well as page numbers inwards the adjacent 2 paragraphs are from Ghosh, Ostry, as well as Qureshi (2017).]
As Ostry explained, the novel persuasion also includes a stronger reliant on financial stimulus tools to counter domestic difficulties.

My obvious thought, is simply how much would Argentina's problems locomote solved yesteryear more capital catamenia management, currency restrictions, investment restrictions, financial stimulus as well as and then forth. And whether the IMF, if it rides to the rescue, volition advise to a greater extent than such dirigisme for its bailout money. The quondam International Monetary Fund persuasion -- commit to openness, educate your budget problems, as well as a somewhat jaundiced persuasion of the powerfulness of fifty-fifty good intentioned key bankers to execute masterstrokes of technocratic "management"  -- powerfulness convey something to become for it still.

(It's worth remembering that upper-case missive of the alphabet cannot catamenia inwards aggregate. The exclusively means upper-case missive of the alphabet tin strength out larn out a province is on boats.  You tin strength out sell a manufacturing flora to a local at a depression price, as well as you lot tin strength out sell the unusual currency for dollars at a depression price, but you lot cannot movement a manufacturing flora in 1 trial built as well as soul else has to purchase the unusual currency as well as plough over you lot dollars. Capital as well as merchandise accounts must balance. Capital cannot catamenia inwards the brusk run. Prices tin strength out change.

"Flow management" is 1 of those soothing NGO acronyms for what is inwards fact belongings seizure. You tin strength out enjoin I'm non favorably predisposed)


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