This is a real shame. When I visited in 2004, which was a couple years after the last big economic crisis hit there, things were starting to look up. There was a bit of entrepreneurship among the younger Argentinians I met, particularly in Mendoza and Buenos Aires where many were trying to start businesses, though that might be because there weren't many alternatives. Also, there's great agricultural export potential - Argentinian beef and wine are fantastic, but for some reason you can't really find much of that on U.S. shelves. The country itself is beautiful to visit, and it was pretty cheap for an American to get around (as it probably is now).

Still all was not good. A lot of families were taking on boarders to make ends meet, and corruption was pretty rampant. The general sense I got was that, if the politicians only got their shit together, the country would be better off.

I live in Argentina and I agree. It is becoming a bad place to live in, sadly.

Edit: let me add, Argentina is great, there are great people creating companies or doing amazing stuff; but the general climate for doing anything good is becoming terrible. If you want to do anything as an Argentinian, you have to fight against lots of obstacles, or you have to emigrate. It is really sad. Argentinian entrepreneurs are survivors of some of the craziest stuff you can imagine.

Could you elaborate more? I thought Argentina was doing well from the financial side.