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[-] moujikman@hexbear.net 55 points 11 months ago

Giving up the ability to set monetary policy and becoming economically dependent on the US is an insane move.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

the dollar is freedom tho ancaptain

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

Smells like a CIA asset to me

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

The cool part about giving the whole world brainworms is that acting as a cia asset is the default until you take the time to learn more.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

It's 50/50. LatAm chuds tend to be massive America worshippers. The nationalistic right-wing chuds are often outnumbered by them.

[-] markr@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

but as it is already, peripheral countries have almost zero ability to set monetary policies. Basically only the US, the EU, Japan and China can do that. The rest of the world is effectively managed by the central banks of the bigs, and even then it is really the US Fed that is in control. He's just ceding what little control the argentine central bank had.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

What are you talking about? This is the most sensible ancap policy every conceived

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The reason this kind of thinking is popular among the masses is often because the local currency is worthless and subject to hyperinflation. So people see a stable currency in the US dollar, and the central bank of their country constantly failing to curb runaway inflation, and think oh lets just use the USD. Without considering any of the macroeconomic consequences of essentially having no domestic economic policy or economic sovereignty.

In Zimbabwe it's basically all South African Rands and US dollars for instance.

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