• Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No it’s worse than that. How are they going to purchase enough dollars to replace their own currency? No one is going to give Argentina a loan to do this.

    This project is doomed before it starts.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The idea is that since the government can’t run a surplus by itself, he will break the capacity of running into deficit and making it so they don’t have any other choice.

      It’s a nice-looking, simple idea that some countries try here and there and never work on practice.

      • cyd@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        never work on practice

        There are several countries that use the dollar, including, in Latin America, Ecuador and Panama. They are doing fine.

        More pertinently, Zimbabwe’s famous hyperinflation was ended by dollarizing.

        So it’s not an outright crazy idea. I think the doomposting is mainly due to “right-wing therefore bad”.