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Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong

Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:20 am
Posted by Placekicker
Florida
Member since Jan 2016
8986 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:20 am
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Argentina has historically been a country of failed governments, economic collapses, and debt defaults. Yet incredibly there are signs that – against all the odds – the bold, free market reforms of its libertarian President Javier Milei are beginning to work.

With inflation falling, interest rates coming down, and the peso on fire in one market, Milei is already proving the global Left-wing economic establishment – addicted to bigger government and endless deficits – wrong. Indeed, it may provide a template for other countries to escape from zero growth.

First, what’s changed in the country: inflation has fallen to 11pc and Milei predicts it will fall further. While a monthly figure (this is Argentina after all), price rises may be coming back under control after soaring above 300pc annually.

Last week, Milei announced that the country had recorded its first quarterly budget surplus since 2008, a modest 0.2pc of GDP, but still an astonishing achievement in such a short space of time, especially for a country that has run deficits for 113 of the last 123 years.

Then, earlier this week, the central bank, which Milei has not yet gotten around to abolishing as he pledged, cut interest rates for the third time in three weeks. While they are still at an eye-watering 50pc, that will start to feed through into the economy very soon. Investors have started to notice.

According to Bloomberg data, in the blue-chip swap market the peso was the best-performing currency in the world in the first quarter of this year, and the bond markets are rallying as well.

It may also get better over the months ahead. With stabilising prices, and a rising currency, investment should start flowing again into a country rich in natural resources and hyper-competitive on wages costs.
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
114271 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:23 am to
He’s a far right wing bigot - NYT, WaPo
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
266032 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:24 am to
If it works, its now racist according to progressives.

Posted by Gifman
Member since Jan 2021
11488 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:31 am to
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Milei


Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
29731 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:35 am to
Argentina had a few problems that hopefully Milei can continue to tackle. First, inept economic policy makers who did not even know how to manage even a socialist form of economics much less anything resembling free market. The fact that after 4-5 months he stabilized conditions and reversed stupid policies should tell the average Argentinian what kind of kleptocratic fools they had in power for the last 15-20 years.

He's going to have to increase industrial capacity in order to blunt the power of the Estancios who own lots of land and wield enormous power. Argentina is still dependent on agricultural products and to a large extent it gets them in trouble from time to time. It's probably the #1 reason why Argentina despite having fantastic advantages like natural resources and a relatively literate population went from being one of the wealthiest countries prior to 1920 to a basket case today.
Posted by Dock Holiday
Member since Sep 2015
1660 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:37 am to
More from the article:

First, even without a majority in parliament, he has been ruthless. Whole government departments have been closed down overnight, regardless of the immediate consequences. The Ministry of Culture was axed, so was the anti-discrimination agency, and the state-owned news service. Only last month, he unveiled plans to fire another 70,000 state employees.

Milei hasn’t attempted to cut gradually, to control budgets, or to ease people out with early retirement, or hiring freezes. Instead, he has, as promised, taken a ‘chainsaw’ to the machinery of the state, yielding huge savings in the process.

Next, he has been bold. The president massively devalued the peso on day one, taking the financial hit upfront, and then tore up rent controls, price restrictions and state subsidies. He pared back workers’ rights, reducing maternity leave and severance compensation, and allowed companies to fire workers who went on strike.

He ripped away fuel subsidies, even though it meant a temporary spike in inflation. Sure, there has been some short-term pain, but the results are now becoming evident.


Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
28343 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:38 am to
You’ll come for the sideburns. You’ll stay for the freedom.
Posted by Von
Wichita Falls, TX
Member since Feb 2019
2202 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:49 am to
I was listening to a video on the way to work and they mentioned that corporations are flocking to Argentina to invest. Lithium and other resources.
Argentina's money problems will disappear very soon. Probably be replaced with other problems of the globalists billionaire sort.
Posted by Crimson Wraith
Member since Jan 2014
26273 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:51 am to
U.S. will probably take him out.
Posted by joshnorris14
Florida
Member since Jan 2009
45653 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:58 am to
quote:

Argentina has historically been a country of failed governments, economic collapses, and debt defaults.


Argentina was the 4th largest economy in the world less than 40 years ago. Saying that highlights how disastrous authoritarian economic policies can be.
Posted by Loserman
Member since Sep 2007
22402 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 9:04 am to
Sure sure...

It might be able to work in a small 3rd word country like Argentina, but it couldnt work in a country like the US.

[/leftist talking points off]

Posted by VADawg
Wherever
Member since Nov 2011
45906 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 9:06 am to
I fully expect our fricked up government to run a color revolution down there within a year.
Posted by bird35
Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 9:35 am to
The CIA is going to kill this guy.
Posted by stuntman
Florida
Member since Jan 2013
9215 posts
Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:50 pm to
He's done all of this with next to no help from their congress. His new omnibus law did pass their house, but it hasn't passed the Senate yet looks like it will though. As good as things have been getting now, things are about to get a lot better when that law passes.

We had our shot with Ron Paul, but neocons had way too much influence and power over the media.

What could have been:(
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