Silvia Naishtat
02/11/2021 18:27
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 02/11/2021 18:35
Due to age, being out of the country or because the vaccine was applied elsewhere and awaiting the second dose, the truth is that there
were very few owners of leading companies
at the meeting this Thursday morning with the full economic team , including the president of the Central Bank, Miguel Pesce, and which was led by Santiago Cafiero.
They had been summoned on Tuesday and they immediately found out that the President was
not going to be from the party
.
The absences were synthesized in the figures of
Paolo Rocca, Luis Pagani and Luis Pérez Companc.
The meeting was described as
"very relaxed
" with a mechanism in which the exchange focused on the reality of each sector.
And the surprise was given by the applause to Minister Guzmán who managed to
"captivate"
with his presentation, according to one of the CEOs who still did not want to be cited.
For another CEO, applauding Guzmán was a
gesture of clear political intention,
"a way of differentiating those who recognize that inflation originates from macroeconomic policy and
does not blame the businessmen," he
also said, requesting the off the record.
Guzmán admitted that the deficit will have to be financed but this time with debt in pesos.
Among the owners who attended, Javier Madanes Quintanilla, from Fate and Aluar, gave the note when he acknowledged, consulted by journalists, that his
conscience indicates that he would have to pay the tax on large fortunes but his advisers recommend that he go to court .
Madanes differentiated itself from Martín Berardi of Ternium, Techint's subsidiary for flat steel, by pointing out that
they are not being able to produce at maximum capacity.
Ternium, so demanded by the automotive and electrical appliance industries, works 100%.
There were some reproaches from like-minded entrepreneurs like Teddy Karagozian, from the textile industry.
He not only said that it was the first time he had been invited to the Bicentennial Museum, the scene of the meeting.
He also pointed out that they
do not provide the dollars to bring machinery.
Daniel Funes de Rioja and Berardi expressed their
concern about vaccines.
Funes stressed that
20% of the schools are licensed
and that a higher speed would be needed to normalize production.
It was up to Matías Kulfas, the Development Minister, to deliver the unpleasant news for many: the
creation of sectoral tables
to monitor costs and prices, something that reminded them of the schemes used by Axel Kicillof in his time as minister.
It was at that moment that Mario Ravettino, on behalf of the refrigerators, shot that it
was necessary to end the informality of the sector,
which is unfair competition.
And one of the supermarkets detached itself from what happens with fruits and vegetables with free prices.
At the exit, many shared the view that although they do not believe in Guzmán's goals, "
the economy arrives calmly in October
, in part because it is thought that it will keep the dollar at bay helped by the prices of raw materials and a harvest that recovered volume due to the last rains ".
Of course, when asked if that means more investment and employment, the answer is almost unanimous: "This requires more time."
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