October 31, 2011 · Capital controls

Start of the currency controls

Restrictions on buying dollars for savings; the gap between the official and the informal dollar is born.

today scores 46/100 against this crisis · press: no reading · −8 over 30 sessions

12 of 13 variables compared

data as of Oct 28, 2026

How much each day resembled this crisis

0100Jun 25Aug 6Sep 16Oct 28an ordinary day scores 34resonance from 60

daily score of each session

Recent resonances

  • Oct 20, 2025 – Oct 24, 2025max 70 · 5 sessions
  • Aug 13, 2025 – Aug 22, 2025max 70 · 8 sessions
  • Jun 24, 2025 – Jul 1, 2025max 65 · 6 sessions
  • Jun 16, 2025 – Jun 20, 2025max 71 · 5 sessions
  • Dec 7, 2015 – Dec 14, 2015max 64 · 6 sessions
  • Sep 30, 2015 – Oct 21, 2015max 64 · 16 sessions
  • Aug 27, 2015 – Sep 25, 2015max 65 · 22 sessions
  • Jun 4, 2015 – Aug 21, 2015max 69 · 57 sessions

Fingerprint, today and then

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then

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What came after this crisis

HISTORY, NOT A FORECAST · what followed this crisis, not what follows today

Variable30 days90 days180 days
Country risk+12.7%−3.0%+16.5%
Reference dollar+25.0%+25.0%+25.0%
Merval in USD−29.4%−22.0%−37.5%
Reserves−3.1%−1.8%+0.7%

Change between the last reading up to the crisis date and the last reading up to N calendar days later. A dash means the series does not reach.

Where it sits in the territory

TODAYFX controls 2011

What Nuestra Señal wrote

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