Argentines Keep Cash Under Mattresses Even as Milei Pushes Bank Accounts

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 at first touch.