Last week’s default by the Argentine government is yet another unwanted headwind for the beleaguered economy. Fears of a re-run of 2002’s economic meltdown are overblown. But the messier that the default becomes, the greater the downside risks to our forecast for GDP to contract by 1% this year.
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