Lessons From Argentina

Today, we are taking a closer look at last week’s executive shakeup at Fannie Mae. A lot of market commentators are treating this as a simple administrative hurdle—telling investors to prepare for extended processing times and minor closing delays.While extended processing times ...  Show more

There has been a lot of discussion over the past few days about tariffs and the trade relationship between Canada and the United States. The events of Friday where Canada withdrew from the negotiations put the impasse in stark terms. Most of that discussion has focused on manufac ...  Show more

In this video, Patrick Bet-David discusses the issue of the debt ceiling in America, its history, and how it has been used as a political weapon. It highlights the negative consequences of defaulting on the national debt with examples from Argentina, Russia, Greece, and Venezu ...

Argentina has been on a decades-long search for economic stability, but it always seems to be out of reach. High inflation has been plaguing the country and just surpassed 160% a year.Over the past couple of years, the local currency has collapsed. One U.S. dollar used to be wort ...  Show more

The Nobel-prize winning economist Simon Kuznets once analyzed the world's economies this way — he said there are four kinds of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan... and Argentina.If you want to understand what happens when inflation really goes off the rails, go to Argen ...  Show more

There’s inflation, and then there’s hyperinflation. That’s what’s happening in Argentina, and it’s changing the way people do business and behave in the economy. We’ll talk about how Argentina is dealing with it and how it relates to the “sticky” inflation situation in the U.S. e ...  Show more