News of printing

Milei’s ‘maquinita’ – How many pesos is Central Bank printing?

22-02-2024 15:31 Since Javier Milei entered the Casa Rosada as president, Argentina’s monetary authorities have continued minting the national currency – while altering its destination. Why is there talk of the "benign" printing of money?

by Martín Fernández Nadale

MONEY PRINTING

Central Bank approves printing of 10,000- and 20,000-peso notes

12-01-2024 15:48 The 10,000-peso note will feature the images of Manuel Belgrano and María Remedios del Valle. The 20,000 peso one will have Juan Bautista Alberdi, the person most admired by President Milei.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Record money-printing: 9.439 billion banknotes in circulation as Fernández leaves office

04-12-2023 18:01 The money moving around "the street" has gone up 80 percent in the last four years. On average there are currently 2,050 banknotes per inhabitant in circulation, none worth more than US$2 each.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Government has printed equivalent of 18% of GDP since 2019

19-09-2023 09:33 New report says President Alberto Fernández’s administration has printed the monetary equivalent of 3% of GDP so far this year, most of it aimed at the repurchase of bonds to protect their price level.

CRIME & SECURITY

Clandestine Nazi printing press in San Isidro dismantled by police

13-09-2023 15:39 Federal Police officers seize more than 200 Nazi-orientated publications and book covers after raiding a clandestine printing press installed inside a home in San Isidro. Owner has been arrested after two-year investigation.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Martín Guzmán: ‘Abandoning the currency never did anybody any good’

10-06-2023 06:27 Argentina’s former economy minister on tackling inflation, unifying the exchange rate regime, the IMF debt deal he negotiated and what happens after the October election.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

News of printing

Milei’s ‘maquinita’ – How many pesos is Central Bank printing?

Central Bank approves printing of 10,000- and 20,000-peso notes

Record money-printing: 9.439 billion banknotes in circulation as Fernández leaves office

Government has printed equivalent of 18% of GDP since 2019

Clandestine Nazi printing press in San Isidro dismantled by police

Martín Guzmán: ‘Abandoning the currency never did anybody any good’

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Super size peso

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