Welcome to Obama's Argentina

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Leftist President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner this week pointed the finger at bankers, grocers, and her critics in the local press for Argentina’s runaway inflation and withered domestic investment. “We are not going to allow them to continue looting the Argentine people’s pockets,” she vowed in a speech.

Thanks to Argentina’s endowment of agricultural commodities, which have enjoyed a bull run since its last default, Fernández and her late husband (the former president) have doubled government spending from 15 percent of gross output since 2003. That largesse was showered on costly transportation and electricity subsidies and cash payouts to the country’s lower class.

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