29/05/2012 | Editorial English

Harm on the farm

Rumours that Buenos Aires provincial governor Daniel Scioli is poised to decree a farm tax increase via the revaluation of rural property would represent a high-risk strategy for everybody involved if true — reason enough to doubt whether these rumours will materialize until they in fact do.

29/05/2012 | Editorial Spanish

Rebelión y la granja

29/05/2012 | Columnist

Referendum on Obama

Given candidate Mitt Romney’s weaknesses, the best chance Republicans have to retake the White House is to transform the election into a referendum on Obama’s first term.

28/05/2012 | Editorial Spanish

Buenas nuevas y malas nuevas

28/05/2012 | Editorial English

Good news and bad news

If Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno is probably the most reviled official of a controversial administration, the April trade surplus figures might seem to suggest that there could be method in his madness— at first sight anyway.

28/05/2012 | Columnist

Place your bets

As the runaway train of European public finance hurtles toward its possible doom, all passengers on board are looking in one and the same direction.

27/05/2012 | Columnist

Comparing Videla with Hitler

My column last week that appeared under my suggested headline “The man who would be Hitler” was meant to be provocative. I wanted to encourage readers who shy away from the sheer...

27/05/2012 | Editorial Spanish

De qué se trata

27/05/2012 | Columnist

Greenback to the wall

Many critics of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are exasperated to the point they can barely utter all that is wrong with this administration in one anguished gasp.

27/05/2012 | Editorial English

What’s going on

The lines of the national anthem (1813): “And the free peoples of the world respond: Health to the great Argentine people” might suggest that Argentina has always exaggerated its importance to...