Cristina Kirchner is Dumb as !@#$

[MachineGhost]

You can't help look at that table and wonder why mens reported suicide rate is 3 or 4 times higher than womens.

Out of 107, most (if not all) of the Baltic Countries are in the top 15, South Korea is #2, Japan is #7, Switzerland is #17, Finland is #19, Sweden #30, the USA is #41.

I think lack of Vitamin D (sunshine) is probably a stronger factor than statism, but there looks to me like more or less a trend of more statist countries having higher suicide rates.  Japan is explainable, but what about South Korea?  SK doesn't strike me as being either Japan-like or lacking in sunshine.  Perhaps its the continual threat of a North Korean nuclear holocaust?

I guess one way to prove it for sure would be to look at the suicide rates in the former Soviet Union.  By any standard, there would have been no limit to the amount of problems to occupy the brain over there.  I would expect the rates to be low if the meme is at all true.

[gizmo_rat]

^ I suspect it's impossible to draw any meaningful comparisons from suicide rates because the act of killing yourself and the later reporting of it are so culturally bound.
For example I'd expect old Soviet statistics to reflect the fact that no one would be unhappy in a worker's utopia. 

[notsheigetz]

You can't help look at that table and wonder why mens reported suicide rate is 3 or 4 times higher than womens.

Actually, I would have been very surprised if male suicide rates weren't much higher than women's.

[MachineGhost]

Gold is now banned in Argentina.  Way to go, Kirchner!

http://translate.google.com/translate?s ... ml&act=url

[escafandro]

not bad

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/09/13/2336 ... ntine.html
http://m24digital.com/en/2012/09/13/pro ... untryside/

TV coverage

http://tn.com.ar/envivo/24hs

[MachineGhost]

Very encouraging!

[Ad Orientem]

A Street Level View Of Argentina's Economy, The Peso And ARGT

http://seekingalpha.com/article/873431- ... kets&ifp=0

[stone]

From that link:

There are increasing rumors circulating that President Kirchner is seeking a constitutional amendment to permit her to stand for a third term, a maneuver previously favored elsewhere in the world by heads of state ranging from Venezuela to Nigeria. How likely this is to happen remains to be seen, but her administration enjoys enough support that it cannot be considered a non-starter. If the Kirchner administration's policies to date are any indication of what's to come, Argentina's economy may have to get worse before it gets better.

Isn't it bizarre that she is getting that support?

[escafandro]

Luckily she doesn't get that support.
In surveys, 66% is against to this amendment.

[escafandro]

At this moment.
Cities around the country and also in cities overseas.

http://clarincomhd.tumblr.com/tagged/Fotos8N

[Ad Orientem]

At this moment.
Cities around the country and also in cities overseas.

http://clarincomhd.tumblr.com/tagged/Fotos8N

Most encouraging.

[craigr]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-1 ... -data.html

Argentina is on track to be the first country ever censured by the International Monetary Fund for not sharing accurate data about inflation and the economy.

The IMF’s board of directors, meeting yesterday in Washington, gave the country until Dec. 17 to respond to concerns about the quality of its official data, it said today in an e-mailed statement. If the deadline is missed, the board can issue a declaration of censure, a warning that has never been used and which means sanctions may be applied if the concerns aren’t addressed
…
To avoid fines, economists now share their research with opposition lawmakers, who release a monthly report based on the data. The September report said prices rose 24 percent in August from a year earlier. Two days later, the statistics agency said annual inflation was 10 percent.
Argentina has about $37.6 billion of bonds tied to the official inflation index, which account for 21 percent of government debt, according to Barclays Plc. The government’s decision to underestimate inflation has cost investors almost $7 billion in returns the past five years, according to ACM Consultores, which is run by former central bank manager Maximiliano Castillo.

[MachineGhost]

Angry over inflation, crime and corruption, people of all ages jammed the capital's streets for nearly four hours to protest against President Cristina Fernandez in Argentina's biggest anti-government demonstration in years.

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Newspapers and television programs provide a daily diet of stories about increasingly bold home invasion robberies, in which armed bands tie up families until victims hand over the cash that many Argentines have kept at home since the government froze savings accounts and devalued the currency in 2002. The vast majority of the crimes are never solved, while the death toll is rising.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir ... h-17669749

[Pointedstick]

Newspapers and television programs provide a daily diet of stories about increasingly bold home invasion robberies, in which armed bands tie up families until victims hand over the cash that many Argentines have kept at home since the government froze savings accounts and devalued the currency in 2002. The vast majority of the crimes are never solved, while the death toll is rising.
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