6 Quotes by Felipe Noguera

When the IMF lends you money it has all these strings attached. But if you don't owe the IMF money, the IMF can't poke its nose into your affairs even though IMF money is cheaper than the money that's available on the open market.

Now that people are beginning to feel like things are back to normal again, then they start to expect more. People are asking the famous 'What's in it for me?' question.

Because of the economic crisis, Kirchner ruled by decree for two and a half years, and basically because of the crisis, everyone went along with that. Now he's trying to generate his own majority in Congress.

He has a habit of picking a weak enemy and berating them.

Argentina ... suspended politics for about two years after the crisis. This election ... should be weighed in terms of a return to normality, of picking up the pieces and trying to put them together again.

This could have several unexpected or adverse reactions. One is that it doesn't work (in terms bringing down prices.) Cattlemen could just hold back production and send fewer animals to market and the prices will keep rising anyway. And if this means less activity for the meatpacking industry, what does that mean for jobs?