Argentina Devaluation and Interest Rate Hike

The news just out that Argentina has devalued the peso by around 20% against the dollar (to 350/$) and hiked the policy interest rate by 21%-pts to 118% underscores that the economy is lurching towards an even deeper economic crisis.

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