{"id":93337,"date":"2025-01-04T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=93337"},"modified":"2025-01-03T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:30:07","slug":"can-javier-milei-make-argentina-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/01\/04\/can-javier-milei-make-argentina-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Javier Milei Make Argentina Great Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5dXUYImwbR4?si=rUrPik2HuCLMJv6S\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adam Smith Institute<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 3 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<p>In November 2023, Argentina elected Javier Milei, a libertarian economist armed with a chainsaw and a bold plan to rescue the country from decades of decline. Facing 142% inflation, a crumbling peso, and 40% poverty, Milei slashed spending, deregulated markets, and delivered a historic budget surplus &mdash; all within a year.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Bidwell dives into Milei&#8217;s radical reforms, exploring the challenges that have made them necessary. He traces the country&#8217;s rise as a global economic powerhouse in the early 20th century, its decline through years of government intervention and Peronism, and its resurgence under Milei&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Discover how this fiery libertarian turned Argentina\u2019s economic fortunes around &mdash; and what the world can learn from his audacious blueprint for recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 Subscribe for more insights on global economics, history, and leadership!<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd17 Check out our website for more economics content: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamsmith.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.adamsmith.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TIMESTAMPS<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Start<br \/>\n00:53 Golden Years<br \/>\n02:59 Decline of Argentina<br \/>\n05:20 Peron<br \/>\n08:47 The Legacy of Peronism<br \/>\n11:56 After the Falklands<br \/>\n15:38 Javier Milei<br \/>\n18:17 Challenges<br \/>\n24:31 Lesson for the UK and the wider world<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Smith Institute Published 3 Jan 2025 In November 2023, Argentina elected Javier Milei, a libertarian economist armed with a chainsaw and a bold plan to rescue the country from decades of decline. Facing 142% inflation, a crumbling peso, and 40% poverty, Milei slashed spending, deregulated markets, and delivered a historic budget surplus &mdash; all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,25,84,7,10,53],"tags":[492,712,108,1517,320,165,1530,266,76],"class_list":["post-93337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-economics","category-government","category-history","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-argentina","tag-centralplanning","tag-coldwar","tag-coup","tag-freetrade","tag-inflation","tag-javiermilei","tag-protectionism","tag-socialism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ohr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93338,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93337\/revisions\/93338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}