[Milei WINS!] Javier Milei, Austrian econ. prof. & ancap, runs for president of Argentina

acptulsa said:
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https://twitter.com/JMilei/status/1732017865614631242
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I think we fell victim to some overstated press when the election happened.

He's not shutting down the state bank. I doubt he could even do it, legally.

Understand, the Argentine bank is truly sovereign, unlike ours.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...as-new-central-bank-chief-sources/ar-AA1l3Sgp

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine economist Santiago Bausili is set to become the governor of the country's central bank after President-elect Javier Milei takes office on Dec. 10, according to three people with direct knowledge.

Bausili - a close ally of the incoming Economy Minister Luis Caputo - was undersecretary of finance under Mauricio Macri's administration between 2016 and 2017, and he later became the finance secretary until Dec. 2019.

His selection for the central bank will create a strong front of mainstream conservative economists alongside market-friendly Caputo, that could help moderate President-elect Milei's more radical libertarian propositions.

Bausili's latest role was as a partner of Anker, a Buenos-Aires based consultancy firm, alongside Caputo, which he joined in Oct. 2020.
Bausili previously worked for Deutsche Bank as a debt origination director, first in New York and then in Buenos Aires. He worked for over a decade at JPMorgan focused on capital markets and derivatives marketing covering Argentina, Chile and Peru.

Caputo and Bausili were pictured earlier on Tuesday arriving at the hotel where Milei is staying in downtown Buenos Aires.

Milei pledged during the campaign, and reiterated recently, that he would eventually shut the central bank and dollarize the economy, a move he says would help slay the country's painful triple-digit inflation.

Just a couple of months ago, before winning the election, Milei had appeared to favor his main dollarization adviser Emilio Ocampo to lead - and close - the central bank.

However, since winning a run-off election last month he has shifted towards a more pragmatic stance, focusing more on reducing the fiscal deficit and putting dollarization on the back burner.
 
Snowball said:
I think we fell victim to some overstated press when the election happened.

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Who is "we"? :confused:

Occam's Banana said:
This is the same kind of problem Ron Paul would have faced had he become POTUS (or Rand, Massie, et al. would face if they did).

If Milei wins, don't expect him to be able to work wonders. He almost certainly will not. [...M]uch more is required than just one man being elected to a single "top-down" position on the basis of a grab-bag of vague, inchoate, and often contradictory popular resentments (however deep or intense those resentments may be).
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Occam's Banana said:
Of course he isn't gong to do all the things he promises. He won't be able to do them all.

The same thing would have been the case if Ron Paul had become POTUS.
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Occam's Banana said:
[...] I will not be holding my breath waiting for Milei to succeed in implementing his agenda, either. To the extent that he achieves any significant success in doing so, I will be just as pleasantly surprised as I was at his electoral win.
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Occam's Banana said:
Milei is a politician, and he's just one man.

No, we shouldn't put faith in him. Yes, we should be skeptical of him.

But we should be ecstatic that our ideas are being shared globally.
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Occam's Banana said:
Milei’s plan is a moderate one if seen through ideal lenses but as I have already pointed out, it is the most libertarian program that could be advanced upon without being ostracized by the public and mainstream media. Compromises were made after the general elections [prior to the runoff election] against the leftist Peronist candidate Sergio Massa. [...]

[...] Milei, although an anarcho-capitalist has had to moderate in order to gain office, once taking the reins of the state we shall see how much of the freedom program he proposes is implemented.

Will it be a revolution of liberty? History will only tell.
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Occam's Banana said:
IOW: Milei is not a unilateral dictator. He will have to accommodate the non-libertarian anti-Peronists who helped him win, and he cannot simply do as he would like (which would have been the case anyway, even if he had been able to win without the support of the opposition coalition). In fact, there will be times when he will have to do as he would not like. It remains to be seen how often and to what degree that is the case. That is the nature of politics (especially democratic politics) - and it is why politics is such a fraught and dicey venue in which to pursue liberty.
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Zelinsky to Argentina.


It's polytricks oh' i mean politics, Don't be a RUBE.
 
vita3 said:
Zelinsky to Argentina.


It's polytricks oh' i mean politics, Don't be a RUBE.
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"Now we see what Milei will do."

I predict, he puts all of Zelinksy (Ukraine criminal war) in his mouth & swallows.
 
gives menorah to Zelensky

That's hilarious. Hey, dude. Welcome to my inauguration. Here's a reminder why it's not raining money on you any more.
 
John-G said:
This guy gives me the creeps, I am catholic and I would be saying the same thing if he the same fetish with catholics. You are the president of the people of Argentina, please focus on them not some creepy dictator in Kiev.
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The dog is so easily wagged.

When your enemy wins a small but real victory and you want to trivialize it, you invite him to your club and you surround him with your retards, hunchbacks and misfits. "See, you're part of the club now. You fit right in!" That is why Zelensky is in Argentina. Argentina does not benefit from cutting ties with Ukraine, so it's not a hill worth dying on just in order not to be seen with Zelensky.

Milei is Catholic. I don't pretend to understand why he says he wants to "convert" to Judaism, unless it's more of a PR thing to signal strong solidarity to Jews in his base. If he's sincere, then he's a theological moron but the Good Shepherd knows how to handle stupid sheep, as we all are.
 
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