He journalist specialized in economics and finance Guillermo “Willy” Kohan referred to the problems of reserves of Dollars and the different alternatives that the Government uses to stop the loss of foreign exchange Americans.
“Yesterday what was going around in the newsrooms among economic journalism is that the discussion regarding the future of stocks“Kohan said this Thursday in his usual editorial on radio Miter.
Along these lines, he pointed out that “One of the alternatives being analyzed is to return to the information regime of the AFIP, for which people will have to request authorization to continue buying dollars in this system of the dollar controlled by the central bank who puts the reserves”.
People who already bought a month u $ s 200 cannot accumulate it the following month. There was also talk of only allowing the purchase of $ 500 a year.
“Yesterday the Government lost reserves, the blue dollar it went almost to 135 ”, he remarked. In that sense, Kohan opined that “everyone understands that the government is going to have to do something with exchange rate policy”.
Meanwhile, he said that what also transpired is that during the weekend the Minister of Economy Martín Guzmán intervened and asked not to modify anything, not because of a conviction in favor of economic freedom, but because the agreement has not yet been closed and signed. with creditors ”.
“The Government believes that when the new Argentine bonds are issued that will take pressure off the exchange market, with which there is an idea that can continue to be pulled, with more stocks,” he said.
Para Kohan, “a fairly strict stocks will apply to imports, in principle of automobiles, but there will also be it on other imported goods. This is generating some relief in industrial sectors ”.
“Obviously the government is going to have to go ahead with the restrictions. And I was thinking about the possibility of a real ‘Duhalde plan’, which is that the one who spent dollars will pay dollars. And that has already happened at some time in Argentina ”, he added.
According to Kohan, “lhe version that was stronger is that the restrictions would be deepened as of September and that in principle there would be a quota, the people who already bought a month u $ s 200 cannot accumulate it the following month. There was also talk of only allowing the purchase of $ 500 a year ”.
“They are a whole series of alternatives that the Government has to put into practice due to the dogma of not establishing a free market for tourism, for savings, which would not affect reserves.”
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