Wall Street Journal (March 1)
Mauricio Macri, the new Argentine President, is off to a dramatic start. “This week he settled a dispute with a number of the country’s creditors that had dragged on for more than a decade as it tarnished Argentina’s reputation. Mr. Macri now has the country poised for a return to international capital markets and perhaps an economic revival that was impossible under his Peronist predecessor Cristina Kirchner.”
Tags: Argentina, Creditors, Cristina Kirchner, Dispute, Economic revival, International capital markets, Mauricio Macri, Peronist, Reputation
Washington Post (June 4)
“Can anyone doubt that the euro’s creation in 1999 was a huge blunder? It aimed to promote European prosperity and unity, but it’s doing just the opposite.” Rather than uniting Europe, “the euro now sows rancor” and “actually hinders economic revival.”
Tags: 1999, Blunder, Economic revival, euro, Prosperity, Unity
