Don’t Cry for the Peso, Argentina

Fergus Hodgson, September 3, 2019

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Like clockwork, the Argentine peso collapses every decade or so, throwing the South American country into chaos.

For Steve Hanke, economics professor at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Troubled Currencies Project with the Cato Institute, the only way out is what regular Argentines already do whenever a new crisis looms large: convert their pesos to dollars.

If not dollarization, which has been successful in taming hyperinflation and government indiscipline across the world, he argues a gold-backed currency board would be equally effective.

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Recommended Links

• Connect with Steve on Twitter and visit the Troubled Currencies Project.
• “Argentina’s Peso, Nothing but Trouble,” Forbes.
• “Argentina Peso, Bonds Whiplashed after Capital Controls Imposed,” Reuters.
• “Business Roundtable Suffers from Economic Illiteracy,” USA Today.
• “Central Banks’ Power Is Undiminished,” Financial Times.

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Fergus Hodgson is Gold Newsletter’s roving editor. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.