Never mind the "vulture funds", high inflation and slowing growth: amid all their economic woes, Argentines can take heart from their national team's World Cup performance. Thanks largely to the goalscoring prowess of captain Lionel Messi, Argentina have easily qualified for the last 16 of the tournament, with fans now daring to hope they might be on course to win it for the first time since 1986. But it seems that at the moment, for South America's second-largest economy, every silver lining has a cloud. Faced with dwindling foreign currency reserves, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's government has done ... (full story)