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Well I've been looking at my inflationometer since he arrived on the scene and it does seem not to be moving as much as it used to.
The shop a few blocks down the road displays the price of their spit roasted chicken with salad or chips on a blackboard outside. They have been charging 450 for well over a month now. Before Colgate man got in the price used to go up every couple of weeks.
Inflation slowing down or just a case of food outlets not being as greedy as they used to be?
Inflation slowing down or just a case of food outlets not being as greedy as they used to be?
My guess is placebo effect.
My guess is placebo effect.
Probably a bit of that too.
450 pesos for a spit roast chicken and salad isn't too bad when compared to the pizzas you get for around the same money here. I know what I'd rather have.
Colgate Man and the Kās are smart enough to know they can rob the coffers of millions if they keep the cost of pollo a las brasas and choris from going up too fast.
thats exactly the plan.....!!!
But already now it get tricky, kkikiplopp announced a small delay in the salary increases for the teachers.....
When people get back from holiday, March, shtf seriously! Money is gone, poker playing doesn't work.......few bullets left!
With so many products now on par in price or even more expensive than the UK I'm not surprised inflation is slowing down.
With so many products now on par in price or even more expensive than the UK I'm not surprised inflation is slowing down.
Guess how inflation is measured here.....
Most are products from precio cuidado!!!! Welcome back to indec!
Guess how inflation is measured here.....
Most are products from precio cuidado!!!!
Is beer included?
thats exactly the plan.....!!!
But already now it get tricky, kkikiplopp announced a small delay in the salary increases for the teachers.....
When people get back from holiday, March, shtf seriously! Money is gone, poker playing doesn't work.......few bullets left!
My husband also says that by the end of March something ought to happen here.
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In Argentina, it seems that we're always playing the waiting game for something that may or may not happen.
a Little to the argentinean poker:
The š¤” is traveling all around Europe to try to get support to the negotiation with FMI........Great, according to them self, they are doing very well .....I'm George Clooney......but, to get the final support and changes to the loans ARGENTINA needs 85% of the votes by FMI......USA has nearly 17%!!!!! So my question to the top hard core poker players: was it clever to invite evo to Argentina and give him asylum here? Is it clever to constantly rant on Trump, America, England, brexit or whatever?????? Boy, more lousy poker player I cannot imagine! And I have reaaaaaally hard to believe that the American votes on the FMI board will support such Muppet behavior!!!!
If it had been Macri begging for support, he may well have got it since he was pretty good at that sort of thing and he speaks passable English.
I doubt very much that Albie speaks any English, although I may be wrong. Besides, populist, socialist governments that support dictatorships such as Venezuela and harbour deposed presidents are not usually welcome in the best diplomatic cocktail parties.
Splinter .....u touch another good point.....I saw the meeting with him and macron, one speaking French, the other spanish hahaha....
Coming from Scandinavia, it's just so hard to accept diplomats or higher ranking people, that haven't done the effort to learn English......English is the international diplomatic language I would say.
It's not like trying to learn Chinese or Hebrew.......its actually possible to learn!
For me it's a disrespect not to speak the language of the country u visit, OR at least English. Beside that French is incredibly close to spanish.....I did not speak Spanish when I came here, but got along with French which then merged into spanish.
Not speaking the international language of diplomacy is definitely an impediment for heads of state. But for casual travelers?
When I was just out of university and eager to travel, my firmly held belief was that it was disrespectful to visit a country without speaking at least a modest amount of that countryās language. So I was limited to Spanish and French speaking countries. Very frustrating. I then studied German for a couple of years and Russian for a year; never felt I had a footing in Russian, but could squirmingly get around in German, which added Germany, Austria and Switzerland to my options and also made it possible to understand (not speak) some Dutch.
But I never became good enough in any of those languages to be comfortable speaking them (imposter syndrome?), and besides, I wanted to travel more extensively. Who learns little-spoken languages just for pleasure travel? If Iād kept believing that people shouldnāt travel to a country without speaking the language, Iād never have seen any of Asia, the Scandinavian countries, Turkey or Slovenia, for example. Who learns Finnish or Malay?
So what is the answer? Maybe just trying to learn a few basic words or phrases?
Sorry for the tangent off of the subject of Albie; the post by @George Clooney just made me think about the language conundrum.
Coming from Scandinavia, it's just so hard to accept diplomats or higher ranking people, that haven't done the effort to learn English......English is the international diplomatic language I would say.
This is sadly true, because politicians in most other countries are not highly educated, even by the standard of their country.
For example, in Italy we have had prime ministers with just a high school diploma, and a Ministry of Education who did vocational school! But she was from a union, so hell forbid some could hold up her lack of education... it was classist!
But it is not hard to find people with a university degree in Italy... not even among 60-something.
Alberto is a university teacher, so I'd expect him to speak English. Unless university teachers here are the left overs: the good ones move abroad, the old stinky ones remains and belong to the establishment.
It is really unbelievable that a university teacher doesn't speak any other language but Spanish... because English is not just the language of the politics, but also of academia!
This opens up another subject I'd been wanting to explore, which is the academic level of universities in Argentina. But this calls for a new thread altogether...
Rice ...
Yea I would say it would be harsh to demand any leasure traveller to speak any language that is spoken in the country he visits!
But for a diplomat? Someone asking for money , forgiveness and and and?
The French are arrogant, so of course Macron or any French speak French by visits in THEIR country......but the š¤”.....couldn't just learn a bit something?
Macri was in the top ten of any politician I have heard from here.......not perfect but really doing an effort!
The worst is when you hear interviews with politicians from here, then blending in Spanish words in the english..... sometimes with totally different meaning!
Reminds me of the commercial for English in the television here....!
My guess would be any spanish could learn French in a crash course of a few days.....enough at least for a blabla talk like that the clown had with Macron.
I'm glad you made the effort to brush up your English when you went to Oxford. 
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I'm glad you made the effort to brush up your English when you went to Oxford.
ha- HA! Communication was more than a little difficult at first!
Currently doing the rounds...
Funny, but Ugh.
