The Boiling Point
A story out of Argentina this week wrenched my heart. It was not the front-page news about the country’s worsening currency crisis; it was a back-page story about a father in Argentina trying to buy...
View ArticleThe Fantastic Sr. Casares
A story in brief, dear reader, from a long-suffering Argentine. Wences Casares writes, I grew up in Argentina, my parents were sheep ranchers, and I saw them lose everything at least three times. Once...
View ArticleArgentina Blues
The Argentine stock market advanced again yesterday… just like it has been doing for most of the last two years. During this brief time span, the Argentine Merval Index has nearly quadrupled in local...
View ArticleLying About Moving to Buenos Aires
Steak and wine. That’s what I tell people when they ask why I decided to move to Buenos Aires with my wife four years ago. It’s a succinct reply, yes… but it’s not entirely true. Allow me to explain…...
View ArticleAnother Dubious Milestone
We’re hunting economic basket cases, dear reader… hot on the tails of real-life sovereign degenerates, derelicts, dropouts and delinquents. And it’s happy hunting… provided you have a warped sense of...
View ArticleA Race to the Bottom
Stocks down… gold flat… Bitcoin holding steady around $400… The markets offered little of interest yesterday. So we turn our attention elsewhere… Regular Daily Grind readers will have noticed our...
View ArticleParanoid Parasitoid
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly, Kicking, squealing, Gucci little piggy. ~From the song “Paranoid Android,” by Radiohead Meet Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, la presidenta who ruined Argentina…...
View ArticleIt Ain’t Crazy to Buy the Loonie
“Buy low. Sell high,” is an old Wall Street expression that seems especially relevant in today’s currency markets. The U.S. dollar’s value is quite high; the Canadian dollar’s value is quite low. So...
View ArticleThe Best Stock Market in the World
When someone says “stock market,” most people think “USA” and its iconic New York Stock Exchange. U.S. stocks represent nearly half of world stock market value. U.S. stock market news also dominates...
View ArticleThe World’s Top Overseas Havens
The trouble with trying to live, retire and/or invest overseas is that the more closely you look at the options, the more confusing they can become. Once you open your mind to the possibility that you...
View ArticleWhy the USA Is Like Argentina
The United States and Argentina are both big countries – fourth and eighth largest in the world in landmass, respectively. Both have vast expanses of pasture and rich farmland. And both are famous for...
View ArticleSmiling for Argentina
Down in Argentina, a new pro-business government has swept into power… and the resurgence of hope is palpable. After enduring 12 years under the crony regimes of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, the...
View ArticleTrade of the Decade?
It’s not often that you get the chance to make a speculative bet that can pay off with triple-digit returns in a very short time period. But that might just be the case in Brazil today. In the upcoming...
View ArticleLook South, Young Man!
The two most promising emerging markets opportunities in the world today are in South America. They also happen to be the two largest countries in the region, Argentina and Brazil. To be sure, we’re in...
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