Córdoba: an Argentine Big Mac one step removed from the porteño chaos
Córdoba, Argentina's second-largest city, posts Big Mac prices that track Buenos Aires closely — both denominated in the same hyper-debased peso, both moving in lockstep with monetary expansion. The Córdoba-Buenos Aires gap, when measured in peso terms, is small enough to be noise; the inflation pattern dominates everything.
For Big Mac Index analysts, Córdoba is most useful as a redundancy check. If two Argentine cities show identical magnitudes of price growth in peso terms, that's confirmation the driver is monetary, not local. The fact that Córdoba's Big Mac price has multiplied roughly 1,000-fold over 15 years — same as Buenos Aires — proves the inflation isn't a porteño phenomenon. It's a peso phenomenon. The whole country's burgers carry the same scar.