Argentina's new money.Licence to print e-cash?
mattd
mattd at useoz.com
Thu Dec 27 03:27:35 PST 2001
Mr Rodriguez Saa, 54, governor of the central Argentinian province of San
Luis, became Argentina's third president in four days. He said he will not
devalue the peso or dollarise the economy but will introduce a new currency
to operate alongside the peso, which has been pegged at one to the dollar
for the past decade.
The new coinage is aimed at injecting liquidity to get money into the hands
of ordinary Argentinians. Essentially, it is a licence to print extra money.
Mr Rodriguez Saa said: "This is not a rejection of foreign debt but rather
the first move by a rational government to deal with the foreign debt
correctly." Asked how he expects international banks and financial
institutions to respond to anticipated deep losses, Mr Rodriguez Saa said:
"International markets will react well because we will negotiate with them."
Speaking in a packed Congress, where he was named president after a 15-hour
session, Mr Rodriguez Saa said that the people would have priority over
crippling debt payments, adding: "Let's take the bull by the horns."
He said Argentina, which has been in recession for nearly three years,
would not permanently shun its obligations. Mr Rodriguez Saa replaced Ramon
Puerta, who was acting president while congressional leaders sought a
replacement for Fernando de la Rua.
Mr de la Rua, who said two months ago that there would be "no devaluation,
no default," resigned last Thursday after street protests against his
austerity measures.
Mr Rodriguez Saa suggested that Mr de la Rua's policies had punished
ordinary Argentinians. "They gave priority to the payment of the foreign
debt over the payment of the debt to its own people," he said, to shouts of
"Argentina! Argentina!"
Economists have expected a default declaration for months. Argentina, which
represents 25pc of all emerging market debt, has an unemployment rate of
18.3pc, with 40pc of the 36m population at or near the poverty line.
Its debt represents 46pc of the nation's $285 billion gross domestic
product and the nation's benchmark Brady bond, the FRB, is trading at 24pc
of its face value. Argentina has already received two International
Monetary Fund bail-outs and some observers have dubbed the economy "the
slowest train wreck in history".
All Argentine exchange markets have been closed since Friday and are not
expected to open before tomorrow.
The e-cash,BUM Tsunami is forming its global mexican wave.Collapse of
governments Imminent.May beshits himself.
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