Jasmine Garsd

Jasmine Garsd appears in Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School) as the NPR reporter whose memory of Argentina’s December 2001 crisis gives the episode its social-collapse frame. She recalls protests near the presidential palace, police violence, hunger, hospital shortages, supermarket break-ins, and the state of siege that preceded the president’s departure.

Her role in the source is to keep Monetary Volatility and Currency Risk grounded in lived institutional breakdown. Argentina’s collapse is not treated only as debt, inflation, or exchange-rate mechanics; it becomes a story about fear, public order, and the failure of ordinary state reliability.

Connections

• NPR and Planet Money - network and show context.
• Argentina - country and crisis setting.
• Monetary Volatility and Financial Power And State Capacity - concepts her account makes concrete.
• Currency Risk - household and social consequence of unstable money.