I always wonder when I travel to another country why proscription drugs are so much cheaper than here in the States. Here’s one of many reasons drug companies get by charging so much. They spend their money cooking ways to stifle competition, along with full page ads in magazines and TV ads. Here’s the [...]
I decided to go to the Museo de la Polica Federal on Friday the 13th . My trustee handbook of Buenos Aires (three years old) said that the museum was open Tuesday through Friday. Therefore, of course, it was closed. Do not carry a three year old guide book with you, spend the money and [...]
Nadya Suleman’s the gal that just had eight more children, along with the six she already had, is going to have to move. Seems like the house she is living in is owned by her mom, which is being foreclosed on. The news is that the family is about $20.000 behind in their mortgage [...]
Another picture of a professional dog walker. Possible new occupation for some of the people on CNBC (I’m still in Buenos Aires and I love dogs) I love comedy. Comedy takes a complex situation and makes it so easy to understand. This was so much so with the Comedy Central’s skid by Jon Stewart taking on [...]
Friday I went to the Museo Nacional De Arte Decorativo or National Museum of Decorative Art. First an update of what’s happening here. The peso was propped up Thursday by the Central Bank and state run banks as they heavily intervened in the market to stop the peso from further weakening. The US gained two [...]
Containing on from my last post, I boarded an American Airline 777 for a nine hour and forty four minute flight to Buenos Aires. I asked my agent who booked my flight to get me a seat next to the emergency exit as you have more room to stretch your legs. Instead, she booked me [...]
La Boca, meaning in Spanish, the mouth, is the area of Buenos Aires that Italians migrating to Buenos Aires in the 19th and 20th century settled into. The area was named La Boca because of the natural shape of the harbor formed by the River Rio Riachuelo bending and flowing into the Rio de la [...]
