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Argentines Keep Cash Under Mattresses Even as Milei Pushes Bank Accounts
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Argentines Keep Cash Under Mattresses Even as Milei Pushes Bank Accounts

Bloomberg Markets · May 3, 2026, 12:00 PM

You’d be surprised how damp and smelly dollar bills get, Alejandro Lamas says, when they’ve been squirreled away under a mattress for years. He’s gotten so many stacks of them from Argentines he’s sold used cars to over the years that he’s a bit of a connoisseur. Slip him a counterfeit and he knows

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