News of analysis

Coronavirus pandemic

Six provinces begin testing to detect coronavirus

25-03-2020 15:28 As of last Sunday, an average of 200 samples per day were analysed nationwide, with between 8 to 10 percent confirmed as positive. Argentina's provinces had criticised the delay in obtaining results.

by Florencia Ballarino

Coronavirus outbreak

How did Covid-19 spread? Viral genetics leave trail of clues

25-03-2020 08:53 A small team of biologists spanning the globe unravels — and tweets out — the virus’ stealthy transmission patterns in near real-time.

CORONAVIRUS CONSEQUENCES

Coronavirus casts another shadow over Argentina’s economy

14-03-2020 08:48 Consultancy firms predict outbreak will deepen economic turmoil in 2020, shaving as much as 0.5% off GDP

by Fermin Koop

BLOOMBERG: OPINION

Argentina’s government needs to speak with one voice on debt

21-02-2020 08:38 Before Argentina can come up with a solid economic plan, it needs a credible political pact. That takes a government which speaks with one voice, mutes the palace incendiaries and treats debt and economic recovery not as a passion play but as part of a national business plan.

by Mac Margolis

AS I SEE IT

Groundhog Day all over again

15-02-2020 11:17 Argentina’s many economic problems have less to do with greedy speculators, whether local or foreign, than with the corporatist model Juan Domingo Perón consolidated almost three-quarters of a century ago.

by James Neilson

A DIPLOMATIC APPROACH

Walking the walk and talking the talk in Latin America

06-12-2019 07:00 A closer look at the US and Chinese diplomatic presence in the Americas, with the region gripped by social and political turmoil.

by Tomás Brockenshire

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

Eduardo Levy-Yeyati: Argentina's narrow path to common ground

01-11-2019 07:30 Economist and author Eduardo Levy-Yeyati says Alberto Fernández has a chance to fix Argentina's deep-seated economic problems — if he acts quickly.

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

Chris Bryant: Norwegian Air is flying again

24-10-2019 12:44 As with WeWork, Norwegian’s once giddy valuation imploded last year when investors started to doubt that the balance sheet was robust enough to support Kjos’s huge ambitions.

GUEST COLUMN

Anger and environmental idealism

19-10-2019 08:30 The thrust of our political, economic and environmental systems must be urgently changed because their divergence is catastrophic.

by Ricardo Lorenzetti

OPINION AND ANALYSIS

Brazilian football is on the road to self-destruction

11-10-2019 08:00 A conspiracy of blunders and malfeasance by professional football’s elite handlers has squandered talent and left Brazil's cherished national institution in shambles.

by Mac Margolis

ANALYSIS: PASOs 2019

Three lessons from the PASOs

12-08-2019 13:06 The breakdown of the vote in the PASOs was surprisingly steady when compared to the past – it’s the electoral offer that made the difference.

by Marcelo J. Garcia

Bloomberg

Brazil finally delivered on pensions – now comes everything else

11-07-2019 12:52 Pension bill approval has mostly been priced into markets, but investors will want more reform.

EDITORIAL

Editorial: The geopolitics of football

14-07-2018 09:04 Russia’s master throughout this 21st century, Putin has constructed an authoritarian, racist and homophobic society in his own image.

INTERVIEW WITH JOSE LUIS ESPERT

‘More than naive, I think the government was completely irresponsible.’

02-06-2018 11:05 Influential economist offers his view on the Mauricio Macri administration’s economic policies, the tax burden and the role of the provinces.

by Francisco Aldaya

MORE UNDECLARED FUNDS

Dujovne: Evasion in the times of Macri

14-04-2018 11:39 The Macri administration risks losing credibility in its fight against inflation and corruption. Dujovne, for example, has 76 percent of his capital abroad, despite claiming he “really truly believes in this process,” referring to the aggressive reforms being pursued by this administration.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ECONOMIC QUESTIONS

April showers

14-04-2018 11:19 Pamper the pampa might have been the initial instinct of the first non-Peronist government in almost three decades but last October’s electoral gains seem to have turned the Greater Buenos Aires urban sprawl into the main priority.

by Michael Soltys