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Tears Shed, Argentina Defies US Financial Control

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Mark Melin
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Although some Argentine holdout bond investors might be feigning shock at Argentina’s recent move to restructure debt in its own legal domain, thumbing its nose at the US legal authority, the truth is this was the highest probability path during the negotiations. So why is anyone surprised that when, as leaked legal documents revealed, Argentina did exactly as expected?

Tears Shed, Argentina Defies US Financial Control

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.