Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to reduce domestic prices

Re:Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to redu... by fgonzag on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @01:37AM (#27204968)

I can't fathom the mental gymnastics needed to enact this type of regulation.

You are essentially stopping the flow of foreign capital into the country on an economy with extreme inflation and unemployment rate.

People don't need beef. Trying to make an easily substituted luxury good affordable that is bringing a significant portion of all foreign capital into the country seems short sighted, to say the least.

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Re:Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to redu... by ramblerman on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:05AM (#27205497)

> I can't fathom the mental gymnastics

Welcome to Kirschnerism...

I love Argentina, it's such a great place to visit, and is still hopefully the place I would retire, but politically I fear it might be headed towards Venezuela.

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Re:Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to redu... by throwaway292a9 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:28AM (#27205956)

Completely agree, it's a wonderful place to visit, but all the politicians are so incompetent it hurts

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Re:Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to redu... by saba2008 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @07:43AM (#27207233)

That this because regulation purpose is not fixing a problem, but making government look good.

Many people does not think in terms of 'flow of foreign capital', but in 'greedy exporters are hiking prices to get rich'. So forbidding exports and fixing prices look good to them (especially with propaganda support), while macroeconomic effects will go unnoticed.

(from experience in Russia, but Argentina looks quite similar in political structure)

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Re:Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to redu... by adrian_mrd on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:45AM (#27205731)

> People don't need beef.

I agree technically speaking, but try telling that to the average Argentinian ;)

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Re:Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to redu... by jbarham on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:14AM (#27206605)

https://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.... (by Maciej Cegłowski, the creator of Pinboard)

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Re:Argentina bans beef exports for 30 days in effort to redu... by ThePowerOfFuet on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:02AM (#27208750)

I first read this perhaps ten years ago, and I re-read it every year or two, hoping to one day make it there to experience it myself.

Now I know who wrote it! Thank you!

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