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Varsavsky, Martin

Martin Varsavsky is President of the Safe Democracy Foundation and founder of seven successful businesses in the past 20 years. He is the current Executive President of FON. He has received his BA from New York University, and holds an MA in International Affairs and an MA in Business Administration from Columbia University.

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Can the U.S. Learn Anything from Argentina?

The advantages of an equity-based economy

By Martin Varsavsky, 17th January 2008

According to the author, recovering Argentina has been doing better and better ever since its economy became a mostly cash/equity game (while having very little consumer credit and very little foreign, national, corporate and mortgage debt), and the United States is bound to discover that its cure for anemic economic growth (credit) just might turn out to be toxic in the long run.