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Argentina's President Is Meeting With George Soros To Shore Up Support After $100 Billion Default
BI - Reuters ^ | 9-22-2014 | Reuters

Posted on 09/22/2014 9:01:27 AM PDT by blam

Reuters
September 22, 2014

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Monday will meet bondholder and billionaire financier George Soros, who is suing a U.S. bank caught in the middle of the country's latest debt default, a government minister said.

The meeting comes as Fernandez's leftist government struggles to kick-start growth and contain runaway consumer prices after failing to complete a June interest payment to Soros and other holders of bonds restructured after a previous default.

Soros' portfolio also includes a 3.5 percent stake in Argentina's state-controlled energy firm YPF. Buenos Aires has frequently cited the Hungarian-born magnate's investments in the country as a signal of investor confidence in the $490 billion economy.

Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich gave no details on what Fernandez and Soros would discuss. Local media reported Fernandez would be looking to shore up support for her unflinching stance against a small group of investors whose decade-long debt row with Argentina triggered July's default.

Fernandez is in the United States ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, as relations between Buenos Aires and Washington sour over the role a U.S. court played in Argentina's debt saga.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: argentina; argentinacrisis; bankrupct; commies; fernandez; soros

1 posted on 09/22/2014 9:01:27 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Soros to the rescue! lol (fox in hen house)


2 posted on 09/22/2014 9:02:09 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldnÂ’t make any sense at all." -- Pres. Reagan)
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To: blam
Hope he chokes on his money.

Wonder how his investment in Ukraine is going.

3 posted on 09/22/2014 9:02:36 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: blam

As an aside, why do they keep calling him “Hungarian-born”? Are they trying to insult Hungarians?


4 posted on 09/22/2014 9:03:22 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
"As an aside, why do they keep calling him “Hungarian-born”?"

John Kerry was in Vietnam.

5 posted on 09/22/2014 9:07:09 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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Of all people to push the lief expectancy numbers why him?...


6 posted on 09/22/2014 9:11:57 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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He can’t be such a soooooper genius if he was dumb enough to hold a stake in Argentina.


7 posted on 09/22/2014 9:18:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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So, which countries does Soros now control with his money? We know he has complete control of the Democrat party in the USA, but who else??


8 posted on 09/22/2014 9:25:49 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: blam

Argentina, I am NOT crying for you.


9 posted on 09/22/2014 9:27:43 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: blam

Soros is likely taking it in the shorts on this. He dumped a bunch of money into Petrobus. Here’s hoping he loses everything.

Pray America wakes


10 posted on 09/22/2014 9:29:42 AM PDT by bray (Read: Republic of Texas 2022)
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11 posted on 09/22/2014 9:32:46 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Warning, Barf Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!


One guaranteed way NOT to pay off the debt:

They make a sex video and try to market it


12 posted on 09/22/2014 9:39:26 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: stocksthatgoup

He’s the man who broke the bank of England, destroyed a few other national banks.
Does he get credit for Argentina, too?


13 posted on 09/22/2014 9:48:09 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: blam

He’ll be given the opportunity to buy into Argentina cheap. The government will protect his investments.


14 posted on 09/22/2014 10:02:39 AM PDT by marron
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Oh, I don’t know. While I probably know even less about economics than my dog does, it is not difficult for me to imagine that Soros would be willing to throw good money after bad if it meant that he would have all sorts of leverage to change the society in the debtor country he is dealing with. From everything I have read about this jerk, I assume that gaining and exerting power is what he gets juiced on.


15 posted on 09/22/2014 11:27:44 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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bump


16 posted on 10/02/2014 11:30:54 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Maybe she should change some of their economic policies that are impoverishing the country??


17 posted on 10/02/2014 11:32:19 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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