Taylor Swift, Israel, Hamas, the IMF, climate change, Chainsaw Man and Mr. Pfizer visit Argentina

Argentina is once again the Petri dish where the world’s future is foretold

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” Jorge Luis Borges

Oft ignored Argentina at the tip of the globe (It’s southernmost point in Ushuaia is dubbed “The End of the World.”) is enjoying worldwide saturation media coverage this week not because they are less than two weeks away from a pivotal presidential election with global significance, nor because of their rich multicultural history or abundance of globally in-demand natural resources, including enormous deposits of lithium and shale oil, nor because they are the world’s seventh largest exporter of wheat at a time when Ukraine’s massive global wheat exports have been cut in half under the economic stresses of their role as willing proxy in a dangerously direct US war with nuclear armed Russia, but rather because newly minted billionaire songstress Taylor Swift is visiting Buenos Aires and Argentina for the first time to perform a three day series of sold out concerts.

Thousands of fans from neighboring Chile and Uruguay, where local currencies are comparatively strong vs. the debilitated Argentine peso, are also flocking to Buenos Aires, making Ms. Swift’s concert series a regional phenomenon across the Southern Cone.

Ms. Swift’s second concert had to be rescheduled from yesterday, November 10, to Sunday, November 12, due to torrential rains, which are blamed on global climate change. The three and one half hour, sold out concert is now slated to take place at exactly the same time as televised coverage of Argentina’s final presidential debate Sunday night. “Swifties” have already made their priorities clear.