Throughout this year the opinion polls have been showing inflation to be the uppermost public concern so what happened in the last week? And then on Tuesday INDEC statistics bureau announced that unemployment had risen to 9.3 percent (see the editorial on this page). Nor are the latter fully compensated by the priorities for the mega-event, the mid-September Forum for Investment and Business. At the risk of mixing apples and oranges (so to speak), this week’s Plaza de Mayo protest by Patagonian fruit-growers has been a case study of the conundrums arising out of continuing economic disarray. Might they not be overestimating inflation by only working with listed prices instead of the prices people actually pay amid the discount wars between supermarkets?

Source: Bueno Aires Herald August 25, 2016 03:31 UTC