In the world of commercial property investment, the wind has blown through the newly rehabilitated house of securitization, leaving it shaken once again but not flattened.
Yet rather than quell his admirers' attempts to evade it, Mr Menem has blown hot and cold, cold and hot, on the notion that he might stand again this year.
Junk in the hole that normally would have been blown up and out to waiting barges instead fell back to the bottom of the hole and plugged it up, yet again.