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FT.com / Weekend / Reportage - Argentina: The superpower that never was
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Workers flood Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, on August 31, 1955 to support President Juan Peron

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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:  Readings

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles:  links for 2009-05-26

Toro's Running of the Bulls Market Blog:  A Comparison Between the US and Argentina

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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed — Britain looks to the land of the rising sun with envy (Telegraph) South Korean politics: Death of a leader  (The Economist) The importance of irrelevant alternatives (TheEconomist) Peter Schiff's media bookings are down 75-85% (TIME) No V-recovery coming in U.S. (Morgan Stanley) Argentina: The superpower that never was (FT) Professor Robert Shiller warns Britain may suffer a double recession(Times Online) NYT writer Edmund Andrews ...

U.S. vs Argentina: Path Dependency in Economic Ascent/Decline
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed — ... their European colonial forebears. Before the Great Depression of the 1930s, Argentina was among the 10 richest economies in the world. The millions of emigrant ­Italians and Irish fleeing poverty at the end of the 19th century were torn between the two: Buenos Aires or New York? The pampas or the prairie? A hundred years later there was no choice at all. One had gone on to be among the most successful economies ever. The other was a broken husk. More here. ...

links for 2009-05-26
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Gareth Campbell: The railway mania: Not so great expectations? Alan Beattie: Argentina: The superpower that never was ...

A Comparison Between the US and Argentina
Toro's Running of the Bulls Market Blog — ... Interesting historical parallels between America and Argentina at The Financial Times.  Not entirely comprehensive but good nonetheless.  ...

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