[A-List] Greatest sovereign default ever

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

FT article just posted by Michael K. is wrong

It was not Argentina, 2002, but United States of America, 1971.

Wasn't American failure to honor the u$s 35 per ounce international 
rule an enormous default?

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro at fibertel.com.ar

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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