Argentina’s Default Spawns Creative Thinking

Matt Levine writes:  The phrase “contempt of court” is a little funny. Normally it just means that, if a judge tells you to do something and you don’t do it, the judge can throw you in jail for contempt. If you are Argentina, on the other hand, and you don’t do what New York federal Judge Thomas Griesa tells you to do, he can’t throw you in jail, because you’re way over there in Argentina, and also a country. So it doesn’t do him much good to find you in “contempt of court,” even if you’ve expressed your actual contempt for the court in the form of personal attacks on him in advertisements and press releases and speeches. What to do?  Argentina’s default

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