The economic Nobelist Simon Kuznets is credited with having said: [T]here are four kinds of countries: developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan, and Argentina - Slate Yes, as anyone who has studied history over the last century has come to observe, Argentina is beyond description. It is singularly unique, requiring its own category. It refuses comparison. Over the last twenty years, I have joined the ever-growing ranks of those who watch that antipodean republic from afar with a mixture of bemusement, wistful hope for its success, and utter astonishment at its incomparable capacity for failure: a nation that was once the fourth-richest per capita country on earth, and promised to compete with America, yet regularly descends into collapse. For brevity's sake -- and for those unaware of Argentina -- the country is about 83% white (including both whites, and those who are almost white with a minority fraction of Indian blood), 8% Indian or mestizo,...(Read Full Article)