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Essays
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Argentina
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 "Argentina:
Whistling Past the Graveyard," Forbes, June 21, 1982. Excerpt
from a longer unpublished essay,"The Pyramid of Credit," analyzing
Argentina’s banking crisis of 1980-82 in the light of excessive world
credit expansion over the past decade and differences in foreign lending
between the 1970’s and Argentina’s high-growth decades (1880-1914).
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"Paco
Capozzolo: The Man Who Tried to Buy the Falklands," Forbes, July
5, 1982. Profile and taped interview portraying a leading Argentine
financial and land speculator who made a fortune in the postwar decades by
betting heavily on inflation and negative interest rates. Describes
Capozzolo’s efforts to buy the Falkland Islands Company in 1977 behind a
screen of French and British "partners."
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"What
went wrong with Argentina?", Forbes, March 1, 1982. Spanish
version published in Mercado (Buenos Aires), March 18, 1982. Taped interview
with Economics Minister Roberto Alemann, who tries to explain the reasons
for Argentina’s economic decline since World War II.
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Argentine
Inflation: Why Doesn’t It Stop? (Unpublished , August 1979). A
consulting report to Exxon based on a six-month study of the historic roots
and prospects of Argentina’s inflation, going back to landowners’
currency manipulations in the nineteenth century and the deterioration of
Argentina’s terms of international trade since 1920 and its impact on
highly urbanized society formed by immigrants.
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"El
Retorno of Juan Peron", The Washington Post, December, 1964.
Five articles form Buenos Aires on the crisis within Peronismo aggravated by
ex-Dictator Juan Peron’s humiliating detention in Rio de Janeiro while
attempting to return to Argentina.
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