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> USD are valuable because USD are valuable.

> Pesos aren’t valuable because pesos aren’t valuable.

Welcome to fiat currencies, where a big incidence on the value of the currency is what people feel about it!

Basically, it's offer and demand. The offer of pesos is huge vs the actual demand, so they lose value. That's also the reason for the inflation of the USD last year, the us government likes to print non stop.




The US prints money because it can, Argentina prints money because it has to. (The monetary course taken by the fed in 2020 has proven quite successful, we’re at full employment with only moderate inflation as a price, which will be addressed in coming year)

The money printing is a symptom of deeper issues.




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