The 59th edition of the IDEA Colloquium It broke records in the number of registrants and also sponsors. This is how he made it known Daniel Gonzalez, executive director of the organization, when it was mid-Wednesday afternoon at the Sheraton in Mar del Plata. The high level of attendance has to do with two current and absolutely opposite factors: the uncertainty that governs the Argentine economy these days and the enormous possibilities that arise in the medium term for some sectors. The businessmen questioned the role of the State and Alberto Fernández pointed out against the “speculators” due to the rise of the dollar.
October 23 today became “the long term” for most economic actors. Thus, representatives of large firms chatted among themselves and with political consultants in the hotel overlooking the sea about the scenario that may arise after the presidential elections. Someone ironically slipped that “in this case there is no uncertainty but certainties, we know that something is going to happen.”
In that back and forth, a businessman emulated the media Moria Casán and asked a renowned consultant “Who are they?” (those who accompany Javier Milei). The lack of contact with the libertarian and his team is one of the fundamental parts of the map of doubts that businessmen and women in Argentina are trying to overcome today. So far, without success.
The opening of the event was led by the president of the 59th edition of the Colloquium, Santiago Mignone, which with epic football and allusions to the world champion team in Qatar, invited the public to “get excited again.” Although he also questioned the lack of ability of successive governments to “change the status quo” and stated that the State “has become voracious, and interferes where it should not.”
It is clear that in the context that the Argentine economy is going through, it is likely that “excitement” or “hope” will not be the first words that emerge from a focus group. So the optimistic harangue was nuanced in Mignone’s own speech but also in the hallway, outside the main hall, where a former official with deep knowledge on the matter warned about the increasingly alarming social situation.
All this occurred on a day marked, once again, by the rise in parallel exchange rates. With the blue dollar at $843 and CCL at $868, President Alberto Fernández, who was in charge of closing the first day, included in his presentation a questioning of those who “speculate with the dollar and complicate things for us.” He also defended his government and highlighted the growth of employment and industrial activity.
The balm arrived at panel time “strategic sectors”. Where references from agribusiness, energy, the knowledge economy, mining and tourism were presented and praise poured in for the great potential these sectors have to generate foreign exchange in the coming years. That they appreciate but that they demand with the same musicality “clear rules and macroeconomic stability.”
Gonzalez He highlighted the level of participation in the event: “It is a record Colloquium in terms of the number of registered participants and also the number of sponsors,” he said. Both positively and negatively, the call shows interest and concern? for better interpreting the next steps of an economy under constant pressure.
Source: Ambito
