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by Jarlakxen 1601 days ago
In Argentina one of the biggest issues with this Index is that if they use the official exchange I may look like that the Peso is way stronger than what actually it is. We have a lot of restrictions that prohibit Argentinian's from getting Dollars a that exchange ( only 200 USD a months ). It should be more fair to use the "Dollar Libre" (kind of dollars of the black market) as the exchange rate, which is double the official.
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Actually, the biggest issue with the Big Mac Index in Argentina, is that the government tried to regulate the price of Big Macs specifically to manipulate the index!