Bill Gates Could Save Buenos Aires: “The hoodlums running Argentina have devalued the peso and, in the bargain, seized dollars on deposit in that country. …(T)he authorities have discredited not only money but banking. In a wink they have bombed their economy back to the Stone Age. How can an economy work without a medium of exchange? For a money supply Argentineans might as well use large round boulders of the sort formerly in circulation on the island of Yap.

Nothing that government can say or do about money will have any credibility, so salvation must come from outside. It could come in the form of software. I envision Microsoft as savior of the dispossessed in Latin America.” Forbes [requires free registration or use login:fmhreader, password: fmhreader]