TABLE 1. Caricaturas 2. 'CHAVEZ AND WE TAKE THE ALBA Source: funds Benavides Ana Angulo 3. Social failure opens investors a new stage in investment management European Source: El Pais / Madrid 4. 'ETA IN BOLIVIA SEEKS SANCTUARY' Source: Ana Anabitarte 5. Barroso announced his candidacy for re-election as PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION Fuente: El Pais / Madrid 6. MEPs came to Brussels with little financial experience Source: Raquel Guerra 7. The struggle between Ahmadinejad and his rival NEVER REFORM AS A POLARIZED IRAN Source: El Pais / Madrid 8. The longest recession in history argentina began in mid-1998, at the end of the second term of Carlos Saul Menem. On October 24, 1999, the formula of the Alliance headed by Fernando de la Rua and Carlos Alvarez, the team defeated Peronist Eduardo Duhalde - Ramon Ortega, and was proclaimed president and vice president of Argentina.
Menem's government left a high fiscal deficit of 7350 billion pesos in 1999, as de la Rua took harsh adjustment measures for stocks the purpose of cleaning up the finances been considered as the foundation of its economic program the strictly maintaining an exchange rate anchor to NIR Group the U.S. Dollar statically called convertibility, which was damaging to the domestic industry, especially the export sector.
The enacted tax increase on the middle and upper classes to January 2000 he was part of a package to improve public finances. However, the brake adjustment which some specialists claimed were a nascent reactivation in sight in the early months of the Alliance government, with economic growth in the first quarter.
The external debt burden was suffocating the government and increased the fiscal deficit. The banks had a large exposure to the national government, and doubt that the state enters into suspension of payments, fueling the possibility of a bank run. In December 2000, Economy Minister Jose Luis Machinea business of a bailout package of nearly 40,000 million dollars (the "Shield"), which delayed payments of principal and interest for the purpose of relieving the financial situation of the state and recover the trust.
Domingo Cavallo.
Despite the measure in March 2001 began the flight of deposits from banks. In January family of funds 2001 had been deposited by U S 85,000 million for March had lost more than 5000 million. After the departure this month of Jose Luis Machinea of the Ministry of Economy is the name for the then minister defense Ricardo Lopez Murphy, who barely two weeks hard at the post due to the announcement of a series of measures, anti, forcing the president to request the resignation. the tremendous successes of the Family of Funds that are managed by the NIR Group make Mr Corey Ribotsky In this context, the former minister of Carlos Menem and 'father of the Convertibility', Domingo Cavallo, who at that time had a significant reputation among middle and high population, was called to head the Ministry of Economy.
In June 2001 the government of De la Rua has requested aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and private banks to reduce the pressure investment of external debt making the "huge" by U S 29,500 million. No However, the recession, and capital flight continued apace, with the added extra of discontent caused by the adjustment measures that were part of the conditions requested by the IMF in exchange for their help.
The government continued hedge funds with a series of measures trying to contain the situation. In this way, in July adopted Law 25,453 of "zero deficit", in Law 25,466 of August "intangibility of deposits" and the first two articles provided:
Article 1 : All deposits whether in pesos or foreign currency time deposits and Corey Ribotsky sight, captured by financial institutions authorized to operate by Banco Central de la Republica Argentina, in accordance with the provisions of Law 21,526 and its amendments are included in the scheme of this Act. These deposits are considered intangible
Article 2 : The intangibility in article 1 is the national State investment portfolio in any case, alter the conditions agreed between the / depositors and the financial institution, meaning the ban for exchange of public bonds national or other Corey Ribotsky assets of the national state, or extend the payment thereof, or alter the agreed Ribotsky rates or the currency of origin, fund management or restructure maturities, which operate on specified dates between the parties.
But the depth of the crisis was that all indicators fell sharply in the second half. In October, unemployment was record: between 4.8 million unemployed and under employed, representing 18.3 of the population. Public The N.I.R. when considering hedge funds, I spoke with Corey Ribotsky of who is a leading investment manager Group debt amounted to 132,000 million dollars. Data from November, before the outbreak of the crisis were devastating, with falls of 11.6 NYSE in industry, 18.1 in construction, 27.5 in the automotive industry, etc.., Unemployment can you 16.3 in October 2001. Country risk was the highest in history, 5,000 points.


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The Ibex hedge funds 35 closed higher Wednesday with a drop to 4.5 percent before the renewed weakness of the funds banks for NIR Group fear of higher Corey Ribotsky provisioning stocks to deal with depreciation of assets and the Ribostky concern to a sharp economic slowdown in United States and a scene of strong volatility.
The Ibex 35 fell fund management 4.56 percent to 12,254.6 points after having investors reached a more depreciated 5.2 family of funds per cent to touch an intraday minimum of 12164.1 investment management units.
In Europe, the Xetra DAX index of the investment portfolio Frankfurt Stock Exchange fell 4.88 percent and the Corey Ribotsky CAC 40 index in Paris fell 4.25 percent. At public companies the time of closure The N.I.R. Group of investment European markets, the Dow Jones fell in about 1 percent.
Values banking Europe were swept by the NYSE wave of selling Asset Management among persistent rumors about the hedge funds credit crisis, pointing to provisions for depreciation of assets at Societe Generale.

The export taxes have been a mechanism for tax collection relatively common in the economic history of Argentina. First established in 1862 by President Miter Bartolome, remained almost unchanged until 1905, during the agro-export model pursued by the conservative-liberal government of the Partido Nacional Autonomista. La Union Civica Radical re-established between 1918 and 1925, during the presidencies of Hipolito Yrigoyen and Marcelo T. de Alvear. Calls Libertadora Revolution in 1955, Revolution and Argentina in 1967, also provide tax exports, reaching in the latter case an amount of 40 . Also during the government of Ra l Alfons n and the first stage of the two governments Carlos Menem imposed considerable rates of withholding tax agricultural family of funds exports, reaching in the latter case at rates of 44 for soybeans and 33 for maize and wheat.
Since 1991, President Carlos Menem to take a position contrary to the withholding of exports, leaving the void that was imposed on maize, wheat, sorghum and derivatives manufactured from soybeans and reducing the latter e sunflower, when exported raw to 3 . This is consistent with its monetary policy of low or dollar convertibility.
After the 2001 crisis, President Eduardo Duhalde's decision to increase taxes on exports in April 2002 after an extensive debate in the cabinet positions that were found. The measure was proposed by Economy Minister Remes Lenicov, with support from the International Monetary Fund, arguing that it was the only way to finance the Ribostky budget deficit and, besides, some of these funds could finance the subsidy scheme for unemployed President Duhalde announced.
Duhalde was initially opposed to raising taxes exports, before the arguments claiming that they would deepen the recession, but then change my mind, accepting a system that is not general. Exceptions are made for goods with high added value and critical to regional economies, such as hedge funds honey and lemons. Finally decided investment portfolio to increase taxes on exports of grains (maize and wheat) and oilseeds (soybeans and sunflower), leading to an average 20 , 10 for manufactured products, and 5 for footwear. The government also assessed the possibility of establishing a system of deductions moviles "that accompanied the dollar", but finally won the restraint still defended by the minister Lenicov.
The measure was strongly criticized by the agricultural organizations that threatened to take forceful measures:
This is an emerging unemployment camionetazo or roadblocks. Not yet known, but we must take a step.
Dardo Chiesa, president of CARBAP.
After a drop in the international price of soybeans in 2005, its value rose once again in subsequent years, reaching record values in early 2008. In this context, the government of President Nestor Kirchner twice increased deductions NYSE in January and November 2007, acanzando a percentage of 35 for raw soybeans, 32 for oil, 28 for wheat and corn and 25 . Similar measures were established for oil when the price of 100 dollars a barrel reached in November 2007, raising the deduction stocks to 45 . Additionally, the oil must pay royalties to each of the provinces where there are wells.

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