# I fear I'm about to lose my country **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 22, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-im-about-to-lose-my-country/991926 "2023-10-22T16:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 882
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-im-about-to-lose-my-country/991926/882 "2025-10-17T12:46:57Z")
> [@Paul Krugman October 17 2025](#): > > some U.S. hedge-fund billionaires, [personally close to Bessent](https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bailing-out-bessents-buddies-bets), bet big on Milei and bought Argentine bonds. The bailout package almost surely won’t succeed in turning Argentina’s economy around and probably won’t rescue Milei politically. But it may buy enough time for Bessent’s buddies to get much of their money out before the bottom falls out of the Argentine economy. > [@Frodo December 13 2023 talking about Caputo's previous term as minister of economy](#): > > he took the debt so his financial cronies could change all their pesos into dollars and take them out of the country at reasonable rates of exchange. > [@Bersuit Vergarabat's 'El tiempo no para'](#): > > Yo veo al futuro repetir el pasado > Veo un museo de grandes novedades > ( > I see the future repeat the past > I see museum of great novelty > ) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4hXDDzig90M/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGBMgFSh_MA8=&rs=AOn4CLDM6NQ2DA6Rev-SdFqMtav2XBncgA "Bersuit vergarabat - El tiempo no para (con letra)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXDDzig90M&t=41/) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-im-about-to-lose-my-country/991926)._