Both countries believe they had a "good crisis", scoring points off each other.
Argentina's last default, in late 2001, came after a major political and economic crisis; scores were killed in riots, and both the president and the economy minister resigned.
Only savings accounts and money-market funds, both of which enjoyed an explicit government guarantee during the financial crisis, scored higher than homes.
"Argo," set against both Hollywood and the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, scored all the usual best picture predictors (nominations in the acting, writing and editing categories) save one: director.
However, on the night when the manager's future was on the line, the diminutive Spaniard responded to being offered centre stage by eventually providing the missing magic to save the club from lurching deeper towards crisis, scoring the final goal from his favoured position seven minutes from time.
The group now boasts more than 215,000 members.With Belarus's opposition leaders cowed or still in jail, and an ever-deepening economic crisis, scores of rowdy young Belarusians have been gathering in Oktyabr Square, in the capital, Minsk, every Wednesday for hand-clapping rallies.
The two parties could agree on one book, however: "The Big Short," Michael Lewis's foray into the recent economic crisis, scored highly with both groups.
The opposition is also using the health crisis to score points against the government.
The opposition party, led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has played on that anger, trumpeting the crisis to score political points, analysts said, even though its government's record in the 1990s was no better.
In both the debates and his response to the financial crisis, Obama scored points with the public for his steadiness and coolness (characterized as aloofness by his critics).
He was talking about the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, when scores of Swiss brands rolled out "products to the point of outrageousness" that were offered at exorbitant prices to buyers with access to easy credit.
