US ready to support Argentina's currency with 'large and forceful' action

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-treasury-chief-us-ready-support-argentina-leaders-meet-tuesday-2025-09-22/

10•jpster•4mo ago

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jpster•4mo ago

> [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent] said the Trump administration hoped to solidify what it sees as a rightward shift in Latin American countries, including potentially Colombia.

vFunct•4mo ago

This is the part where the US officially turns itself into a third-world banana republic, by actually aligning their currency to those failed states.

The US dollar has already dropped by 10% since this new administration took power, so why not completely tank it?

JumpCrisscross•4mo ago

> by actually aligning their currency to those failed states

Argentina’s economy is the size of Michigan’s [1][2]. (14th.) Its entire dollar reserves are less than half of the budget of New York City [3][4].

The impact of many single tariffs vastly outstrips the maximum effects of a swap line with Argentina on the U.S. dollar.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Argentina

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-central-ba...

[4] https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...

gus_massa•4mo ago

The monthly inflation of the last precedent was 13%, now it's only like 2% or 3%.

The price of the dollar goes up and down mysteriously. We had some restrictions that caused a fake official price, but this is a graph of the unofficial exchange rate https://dolarhoy.com/historico-dolar-blue (press 3Y).

teaearlgraycold•4mo ago

It shouldn’t just happen when nations align with our president’s philosophy, but we should do more of this. I suppose the difficulty is in doing this in a sustainable way. I don’t want Argentina to collapse if we pull back our support. I imagine failed states around the world might have turned out much better with a little support from the US, even the socialist ones.

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