GM88: Cycles of Promise and Pain: Argentina’s Unfinished Lesson ft. Nicolas Dujovne
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Is Fiscal Dominance a Future US Risk?
Nicolas argues markets price the risk now but sees fiscal dominance as a medium-term concern if deficits persist.
Argentina’s history is one of recurring promises and painful resets. Nicolas Dujovne has lived that cycle from the inside, serving as Finance Minister during a rare attempt at fiscal repair before markets and politics turned against it. Now, as CIO of Tenac Asset Management, he reflects with Alan Dunne on why economic reform so often falters, how short-term pain fuels long-term instability, and what it would take to finally break the trap. Beyond Argentina, the discussion widens to emerging markets at large - their hard-won stability, the new risks born of geopolitics and demographics, and the shifting fault lines of globalization.
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Episode TimeStamps:
02:24 - Introduction to Nicolas Dujovne
05:32 - Key reflections from Dujovne's former role as ministry of Treasury in Argentina
11:43 - How dollarization could change the overall dynamic of the economy
14:52 - How Dujovne's role as minister has shaped his investment process
16:56 - The state and outlook of emerging markets
21:13 - The relationship between central banks and emerging markets
23:33 - How the current globalization impact the investing landscape
27:43 - Evaluating the U.S from the lens of an emerging market investor
33:25 - How markets respond to fiscal dominance
37:16 - Are we going into a secular decline?
39:19 - How demographics impact emerging market investing
42:35 - Cheap manufacturing chains in emerging markets
44:17 - Finding investment opportunities in emerging markets
46:45 - The maturity of emerging markets
48:14 - The preconditions for structural outperformance of emerging markets
51:08 - How important are commodities for emerging market trading?
52:48 - The energy demand for emerging markets
54:44 - Themes that will dominate the emerging market space in the coming years
56:12 - Advice for other emerging market investors
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