Article says “$40 billion in net shipments of U.S. currency”[0] total over many years (mostly $100 notes from article) yet Argentina only imports $5B[1] to $6B[2] billion of goods from the USA per year!

That is one very very sweet deal for the USA. Especially considering the USA dollar inflation depreciates the value of the physical bills over time.

[0] 1993 https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/1993/460/ifdp460.pd...

[1] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/arg

[2] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/ARG/Yea...

Edit: $5B looks like hex and makes me double double the B billion making the text unreadable, however I am guessing too many readers here don’t like the metric 5G$, which I would otherwise prefer to use. I guess I could write the billion in full, but then this footnote would be pointless.