Massa could denounce an economist who predicted a devaluation for “terrorism”

In the micro-world of Twitter, rumors of a possible devaluation increased this Sunday when an economist with access to the markets responded in his account to a note previously published by journalist Horacio Verbistky. in his blog “El Cohete a la luna”, on a “Reserved stabilization plan” written by the Deputy Minister of Economy Gabriel Rubinstein, which among other things would foresee a jump in the official exchange rate.

Fernando Marull, director of FM y Asociados, wrote on his social network account: “According to Rubinstein’s” Secret “plan: Next Thursday, September 1, at 10:01 am, the official dollar will rise by 50%; about $ 200. “The tweet went viral quickly and it later emerged that the same Minister of Economy on Monday allegedly filed a criminal complaint against Marull, for having done “economic terrorism.

As published by the La Política On Line website, the Attorney General will file a criminal complaint in federal court against Marull this Monday. Clarione he contacted the economist who assured him “only referred to the PDF quoted by Horacio Verbistky”.

“My tweet is just a comment, just a comment on a note that Verbistky posted, where he mentions a plan and links to a PDF, with information that has been clearly conveyed to him. In any case, the expectation of devaluation is having been around on the market for a long time, it is nothing new, “said the economist, who assured him has not received any requests for attention from the economic team and who learned of the possible complaint for transcended in the social network.

“It’s a shame because we try to make objective economic analyzes and these maneuvers they just try to intimidateMarul said. Clarione contacted Sergio Massa’s spokespersons who said they had no information on the criminal complaint against the economist who has just under 23,000 followers on Twitter. Several colleagues and Twitter users came out to support Marull on Sunday night.

The “confidential” document that unleashed the dust has seven pages and dates back to last July 26, when Silvina Batakis was on her first tour in Washington and Buenos Aires her replacement with Sergio Massa has been defined without her knowledge. According to sources familiar with the project, the same it was a “theoretical” proposal. which was later boxed with Rubinstein’s landing in the Palacio de Hacienda, where he saw that its application was impossible.

They have assured the Ministry of Economyand they do not “know” that the document was prepared by the Secretary for Economic Policy. “Forget what’s happening” indicated in the team of Massa. The truth is that his leak from El Cohete a la luna was read by the market as a “grenade” by the same ruling coalition, where both Massa and Cristina Kirchner and Alberto Fernández reject a devaluation.