the economist Diana Mondino participated in the Mesa Chica program, with Jose del Rio and referred to the different exchange rate that the government plan for the coming months. “You have to put a ‘Cosquín dollar’ because it will also be more expensive to take vacations in Argentina”, he said ironically.
consulted in LN+ on the implementation of qatar dollar for purchases from abroad, Mondino reflected that “the dollar is worth $300 and some friends are given a bit cheaper and the exporter is killed”. And he deepened: “Today the soybean exporter charges $100 per dollar, there is a 66%-70% tax on exporters and some friends -from the Government- get it cheaper, but it is worth 300 for everything you want to buy ” .
He also explained that vacationing in the country will also be more expensive and that the Qatar dollar would not only complicate those who travel to the World Cup: “You have to put the Cosquín dollar on it because it will also be more expensive to take vacations in Argentina, or go to Uruguay or return to Bolivia and Peru, it is for everything that is spent abroad”.
Later he added: “We have to think about the poor kids of the system who are going to have to explain to each one of us what we spendit is insane and not only is it more expensive, but all the costly systematization of this is passed on to the poor man with the card”.
Regarding the purchase of parallel dollars such as the Blue, the economist ironically stated that “the little trees will have their own union, because they are going to have so many job opportunities, and a minister -Kelly Olmos- who believes in that”. She, meanwhile, considered that the name of the minister who occupies the national portfolio is not so important because “a president without power cannot give power to his ministers, and they do not have a plan because they have to give continuity to the lack of a plan of the previous ones”.
Later, he was asked about what would be the way to reverse the economic crisis that Argentina has been going through for years and said: “Doing the complete opposite of what we are doing: exporting, so that you can produce and sell it to those who have more money”. About this, he explained: “We have one of the lowest salaries in the world, let’s take advantage of the fact that there are people with more purchasing power and who are interested in buying from us.”
On the other hand, he referred to the need to deregulate the dollar to benefit free supply. “The deregulation that is needed is monumental in a lot of things. If you think about the number of regulations that the dollar has, it already exceeds 200 and some that are retroactive”, he pointed out and added: “There are a lot of regulations that make monitoring very complex. that the only thing it is used for is to generate a ‘kiosk’ for an inspector to come and do his business because it is very difficult to comply with this, and those who do want to comply are paralyzed”.
Finally, he reflected on the scarcity and “drought” that exists around the dollar and the possibility of a financial crisis. “You have to think that just this week, who won the Nobel prize for economics Ben Bernanke, along with his other colleagues -Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvigy- who worked together for the treatment and the studies they did on how to avoid the financial crisis and all the things that have to be done because of the terrible consequences it has on the economy, the people and society if there is a financial crisis… here we do everything possible to generate it: problems with the dollar, production, everything is backwards”, he sentenced.
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