Former Finance Minister Hernán Lacunza published the “K Manual of Economic Policy” after Minister Sergio Massa’s criticism of opposition economists.
In an ironic tone, the former official during the last stretch of the Mauricio Macri government maintained that, in relation to the IMF, the Government has as rules “failing to meet all the goals of the agreement: fiscal deficit, issue, reserves; entertain with fantastic stories: imminent deals with millionaire fresh funds and blame the opposition when the smoke clears”.
Regarding energy, the Kirchnerist position, according to Lacunza, is “freeze rates, take photos of gas pipeline models and blame Edesur when the power goes out,” sustained.
Lacunza boasted, through Twitter, “finding the pattern in his own chapter: transportation, health, housing (rental or mortgage).”
In his opinion, that pattern is “breaking rules and distorting prices, entertaining with stories and looking for culprits when potatoes burn. Have droughts, wars or pandemics at hand.
Massa accused opposition economists of sabotaging the negotiations with the IMF: “How unpatriotic”
What had Sergio Massa said?
The head of the Palacio de Hacienda said this Thursday the 13th that Opposition economists spoke to their IMF colleagues and asked them to “give nothing” to this government.
“An IMF economist told me this morning on a zoom, that they spoke to the IMF and told them: don’t give them anything, ask them for everything, Argentina has to have a hard time now, this has to explode,” Massa said.
In that, he said that, before this alleged statement, the IMF economist was surprised and made sense to him: “How unpatriotic your opposition colleagues”.
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