Any system creates winners and losers. In Argentina and Venezuela, the winners are those who have preferential access to foreign exchange, those who benefit from the government’s profligacy, those who can borrow at the negative real interest rates that lax policies create, and those who do not mind waiting in long lines to buy rationed items.
为什么国家选择这样的策略？因为任何系统都会创造赢家和输家。在阿根廷和委内瑞拉，赢家是那些有优先获得外汇的人，那些受益于政府肆意挥霍的人，那些能在宽松政策创造的负利率下借到钱的人，以及那些不介意排长队等候购买配给物品的人。