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Argentina Moves to Bar Central Bank from Directly Financing Treasury

Argentina’s lower house is debating changes to the Central Bank charter that would prohibit primary-market purchases of government bonds and direct financing of fiscal deficits, seeking to place tighter legal limits on monetary financing.
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