The price of cooking the books

摘要

History has left Argentines with more than their share of economic trauma. Having twice suffered destructive bouts of hyperinflation in the late 1980s, they are sensitive to rising prices. When they spot inflation their instinct is to dump the peso and buy dollars. But after the economy col lapsed in 2001-02, horror at mass unem ployment temporarily eclipsed the pub lic's fear of inflation.