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A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina

2023-09-23 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·23m 57s ·by NPR
A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition …
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About this episode

The Nobel-prize winning economist Simon Kuznets once analyzed the world’s economies this way — he said there are four kinds of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan… and Argentina. If you want to understand what happens when inflation really goes off the rails, go to Argentina. Annual inflat