Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong
Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong
Argentina’s reforms prove it’s possible to slash a bloated state
I don't see a single word in this article about how Argentinians are are benefiting.
Maybe the bit about falling rent prices, but if they're really building that quickly, I have deep concerns about quality. The residential buildings I've seen in central and southern America look like deathtraps in a fire or earthquake.
It's an opinion piece. When it all falls apart this guy will be nowhere to be found. It's not his ass on the line.
That's because the Telegraph is a very right wing rag
Dropping inflation?
Inflation is falling, but It hasn't fall to prior milei times yet. The situations is strange, but in general, we are waiting (or hoping, idk anymore) that it will continue going down. Strange thing to see, bank investment rates (idk the correct term in english) are going down and are lower for longer investment periods. Some prices have skyrocketed for the working class* (gas, electricity) and other are either in the same place as 3 months ago or plummeting (food, general goods, misc.).
Most of the fuzz heard on the news are policitally guided, which is sad cause this truly means that at the end we just dont care about anything anymore.
*dont even think that the working class is the lower class here, if a real crisis really hits that lower piece of the cake, we are all done, with the lunatic of milei and the freaking nazicommunists of the kirchners included.
I wouldn't dismiss the region so easily, Santiago can routinely take 5.+ earthquakes in a city of 6m people and laugh about it because their buildings are designed and built to so.
The guy sucks, but the previous left administration drove the economy into the ground. Poverty rose from around 45% to around 55%, and inflation went from around 25% to 288%.
We on the left need to be economically savvy. That doesn't mean we can't be radical. For example: A hundred different means-tested, bureaucratic welfare programs is progressive but inefficient and demeaning. A universal livable basic income is radical, liberating, and economically savvy. Rent control is another example of a popular leftist policy that is economically irrational. The goal of universal affordable housing is admirable, but the method is madness. It's unfortunate that the left abhors anti-intellectualism everywhere except in economics.
This is not to say that we need to embrace neoliberal corporatist bullshit like charter schools, universal privatization, gutting regulatory agencies, etc, etc. It's just recognizing that radical goals will not be achieved by ignoring hardwon economic knowledge, but by employing economic principles for the benefit of the poor instead of the wealthy.
Thank you for your nuanced take.
