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Argentina nationalizes private pension funds

by Tony Sagami on October 24, 2008

in Consumer Credit News

Argentina is nationalizing its $30 billion private pension fundto protect it from the global credit crisis.

What it is really doing is grabbing future pension contributions and putting it into the general budget.

Bad, bad, bad move. How would you like it if the government took control of your 401(k)?

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