Argentina renews US$19 billion China currency swap, brushing off Washington’s pressure

271 points by DL505 4 hours ago on reddit | 10 comments

PointyPython | 3 hours ago

This was a foregone conclusion. The Argentine Central Bank is still in an incredibly fragile position, on a net basis it technically still has negative reserves (since all of the $48b that you see in the balance sheet aren't the monetary authority's own funds), to the tune of -$8bn or so. The last thing it needed was to have billions of dollars in its balance sheet erased overnight, which would've been what the end of the Chinese swap would've meant.

calmdownmyguy | 2 hours ago

It's funny how the trump administration is getting punked after giving Argentina 20 billion dollars of tax payer money but trump's followers defend it like they do everything else that he ruins.

evrestcoleghost | an hour ago

The line offered was 20b,Argentina used 2b only

ConcernHealthy876 | an hour ago

lol it’s user doesn’t know what a swap is and it shows my this comment lololololl

calmdownmyguy | an hour ago

We gave the dollars for monopoly money. It's funny how ignorant trumps followers are.

loulan | 3 hours ago

America is acting like a bully who will keep bullying you to no end even if you agree to their current demands. Why would anyone fall for that?

Also, it's a bit ridiculous that we have to make messages unnecessarily long on this sub for them to not be filtered out by AutoModerator. Length is not indicative of quality.

SilanggubanRedditor | an hour ago

It is somewhat good enough as an indicator. I presume without the length limit, discussions would deteriorate to one line snarky remarks common in Reddit. And frankly you do have to think more to write more.