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by dguaraglia 5121 days ago
Sorry, I happen to be living temporarily in Argentina (after growing up here, moving abroad for almost a decade) and, while surely the government numbers are made up, I don't recall anyone sent to jail for reporting a different number.

If you have links to the piece of news, I'll be more than glad to see them. If you have not, then please stop making shit up.
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wslh 5121 days ago
A threat is different? http://www.elsurhoy.com.ar/index.php/component/plugins/syste... I don't think it is very different in this case
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dguaraglia 5121 days ago
An empty threat, yeah. As scary as it is (and, admittedly, this is a government that is known to push buttons and pull threads whenever it wants something done, whether good or bad) it'd still be unconstitutional. That's exactly why they didn't stop publishing those figures.

Also, you have to understand something about Argentine politics right now: it's a very polarized country, with two massive interest groups trying to take control of it. I'm not saying the government figures are real, most probably they aren't, but I'm very doubtful of these other claims, specially when these 'think tanks' don't really specify what they are measuring.

This is a horrible game these two interests groups are playing, with everyone standing to lose except a few fuckers on top.

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wslh 5121 days ago
"Also, you have to understand something about Argentine politics right now: it's a very polarized country, with two massive interest groups trying to take control of it. I'm not saying the government figures are real, most probably they aren't, but I'm very doubtful of these other claims, specially when these 'think tanks' don't really specify what they are measuring."

I am Argentinian and you are joking. It is obvious that the government is lying. There is not doubt about this, it is not an opinion.

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molmalo 5121 days ago
Yep, that's obvious. But as I wrote above, it's also true that the salaries are being adjusted accordingly. That's why is so incredibly hard to foreign people to see a 25% inflation rate and not say "This country is going to explode in a few months". But they have being saying that for a few years now... while the country keeps growing it's GDP, the salaries are being adjusted to counter the inflation, and so on.

I think the main problem in the short term is the growing fight between the gvt and the unions (mainly Moyano's group), asking to raise salaries well above the inflation, which may seem to be good for their workers, but its going to be bad for the economy, because the costs will raise even more to produce goods, the competitiveness will fall, and the whole system may eventually crash.

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Uchikoma 5120 days ago
How do you determine GDP is growing, when the official inflation is much below 25%? Wouldn't you need for real GDP growth subtract the real inflation number? Is GDP growth above (25%-Gov Number)?
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