Comments on: Argentina: Que se vayan todos! – They all must go! http://www.redpepper.org.uk/argentina-que-se-vayan-todos-they-all-must-go/ Red Pepper Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tony Phillips http://www.redpepper.org.uk/argentina-que-se-vayan-todos-they-all-must-go/#comment-51153 Tony Phillips Tue, 08 May 2012 19:55:15 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=6965#comment-51153 Great piece Francesca. I just came back to Buenos Aires from Greece and Ireland and have been watching this weekend's reformation of European political power with interest. The shrinking of the Greek, the Irish, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the British GNP (among others) has been severe and the resistance to illegitimate debt is growing. They have a long way to go to get to the organization of the piqueteros or the ocupas but needs must and people's eyes are opening to the terror o international finance in a speculative attack. I thought the quote from Ezequiel Adamovsky, in Le Monde Diplomatique was fabulous ... As to Mr. Kenny's non-sequiturs, the Celtic Tiger burst long ago and Argentina like many countries is having trouble with oil but this has a lot to do with corporate subsidies in the mining and energy sectors... Yes of course it is difficult to live without credit but learning how to do so could benefit more than just Argentina. In the end it is the people against the investors in the market and all strategy is valid in that class war. Great piece Francesca. I just came back to Buenos Aires from Greece and Ireland and have been watching this weekend’s reformation of European political power with interest. The shrinking of the Greek, the Irish, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the British GNP (among others) has been severe and the resistance to illegitimate debt is growing. They have a long way to go to get to the organization of the piqueteros or the ocupas but needs must and people’s eyes are opening to the terror o international finance in a speculative attack. I thought the quote from Ezequiel Adamovsky, in Le Monde Diplomatique was fabulous …

As to Mr. Kenny’s non-sequiturs, the Celtic Tiger burst long ago and Argentina like many countries is having trouble with oil but this has a lot to do with corporate subsidies in the mining and energy sectors… Yes of course it is difficult to live without credit but learning how to do so could benefit more than just Argentina.

In the end it is the people against the investors in the market and all strategy is valid in that class war.

]]> By: Michael Kenny http://www.redpepper.org.uk/argentina-que-se-vayan-todos-they-all-must-go/#comment-51111 Michael Kenny Tue, 08 May 2012 12:51:10 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=6965#comment-51111 The interesting question is just how real the Argentinian "miracle" is. Argentina is still being pursued by its private creditors in the US courts and is unable to borrow money on the money markets. That makes any keynesian or socialist policy more or less impossible. Equally, why the sudden fuss about oil? A Spanish oil company nationalised. A dispute with Britain over the Falklands' continental shelf, allegedly containing oil. Could it be that Argentina is having trouble obtaining oil supplies internationally? In other words, is the Argentinian "miracle", like Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy, a bubble which is about to burst? The interesting question is just how real the Argentinian “miracle” is. Argentina is still being pursued by its private creditors in the US courts and is unable to borrow money on the money markets. That makes any keynesian or socialist policy more or less impossible. Equally, why the sudden fuss about oil? A Spanish oil company nationalised. A dispute with Britain over the Falklands’ continental shelf, allegedly containing oil. Could it be that Argentina is having trouble obtaining oil supplies internationally? In other words, is the Argentinian “miracle”, like Ireland’s Celtic Tiger economy, a bubble which is about to burst?

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