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

[PAF]

What is up with all the Milei-hate on RPF?!

Stop falling for the most transparent, Clown World Fake News tricks!!

It's not hate, it's called holding them accountable which too few people do. Why do you hate analysis and free speech?

A Rothbardian Dissection of Javier Milei

In consequence, if Rothbard buried Reagan, despite his free-market rhetoric, and did something similar with Thatcher, why would he have let his guard down in the face of Milei’s anti-statist rhetoric? It is completely impossible that Mr. Libertarian would have turned a deaf ear to the resounding bells of truth. Because the truths that have been exposed here are enough to expel Javier Milei from a true libertarian movement, for he is, in reality, a member of the neocons, a regime “libertarian,” a false libertarian—and a fraud.[1]

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[1] I want to thank Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Octavio Bermúdez, Thomas DiLorenzo, Stephan Kinsella, Daniel Morena Vitón, and Fernando Chiocca, for having helped me with the elaboration of this article.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...f-Javier-Milei

[ClaytonB]

It's not hate, it's called holding them accountable which too few people do. Why do you hate analysis and free speech?

A Rothbardian Dissection of Javier Milei

In consequence, if Rothbard buried Reagan, despite his free-market rhetoric, and did something similar with Thatcher, why would he have let his guard down in the face of Milei’s anti-statist rhetoric? It is completely impossible that Mr. Libertarian would have turned a deaf ear to the resounding bells of truth. Because the truths that have been exposed here are enough to expel Javier Milei from a true libertarian movement, for he is, in reality, a member of the neocons, a regime “libertarian,” a false libertarian—and a fraud.[1]

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[1] I want to thank Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Octavio Bermúdez, Thomas DiLorenzo, Stephan Kinsella, Daniel Morena Vitón, and Fernando Chiocca, for having helped me with the elaboration of this article.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...f-Javier-Milei

Without even reading it, it is obvious this article is utter trash. It has no clear thesis, which is mandatory for an article of that length. "Rothbard criticized Reagan and I think he'd criticize Milei, too" is not a thesis. The author's "thanking" of the various people cited at the bottom of the article feels like vapid name-dropping to me. I have not seen any criticism of Milei from any of the people he cites (I could be ignorant of it, I just haven't seen it). I have no idea why Lew Rockwell posted it, but I will note that the most recent public appearances I have seen of him, aging seems to be hitting him pretty hard. That's just how it affects some people. I no longer consider lewrockwell.com to be the libertarian standard it once was, and I have seen many questionable choices in the articles published/linked there.

[PAF]

Without even reading it, it is obvious this article is utter trash. It has no clear thesis, which is mandatory for an article of that length. "Rothbard criticized Reagan and I think he'd criticize Milei, too" is not a thesis. The author's "thanking" of the various people cited at the bottom of the article feels like vapid name-dropping to me. I have not seen any criticism of Milei from any of the people he cites (I could be ignorant of it, I just haven't seen it). I have no idea why Lew Rockwell posted it, but I will note that the most recent public appearances I have seen of him, aging seems to be hitting him pretty hard. That's just how it affects some people. I no longer consider lewrockwell.com to be the libertarian standard it once was, and I have seen many questionable choices in the articles published/linked there.

I would have taken time to read it before making such a comment. But that's just me.


Lew probably posted it because it's a Mises.org article:

https://mises.org/power-market/rothb...r-milei-part-i

https://mises.org/power-market/rothb...-milei-part-ii

[WarriorLiberty]

It's not hate, it's called holding them accountable which too few people do. Why do you hate analysis and free speech?

A Rothbardian Dissection of Javier Milei

In consequence, if Rothbard buried Reagan, despite his free-market rhetoric, and did something similar with Thatcher, why would he have let his guard down in the face of Milei’s anti-statist rhetoric? It is completely impossible that Mr. Libertarian would have turned a deaf ear to the resounding bells of truth. Because the truths that have been exposed here are enough to expel Javier Milei from a true libertarian movement, for he is, in reality, a member of the neocons, a regime “libertarian,” a false libertarian—and a fraud.[1]

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[1] I want to thank Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Octavio Bermúdez, Thomas DiLorenzo, Stephan Kinsella, Daniel Morena Vitón, and Fernando Chiocca, for having helped me with the elaboration of this article.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...f-Javier-Milei

I posted several articles on how Javier Milei has litearly stolen the Argentinian gold and sold off its reserves not even his govt knows where that gold is now.

Javier Milei could easily loss power and support from the normal people/public when they find out his polices arent having a effect on the economy. And has sold most of its gold.

[PAF]

I posted several articles on how Javier Milei has litearly stolen the Argentinian gold and sold off its reserves not even his govt knows where that gold is now.

Javier Milei could easily loss power and support from the normal people/public when they find out his polices arent having a effect on the economy. And has sold most of its gold.

Yep, I read that, thanks. Also:

Rather than repudiating the national debt, as Rothbard would have appreciated, Milei came to terms with the IMF—thus following the statist recipe of his predecessors. The disbursements from the IMF for carrying out his plans place an unfair burden on the backs of the productive people and future generations. By relying on the IMF, Milei is also favoring the current and future political caste—in Argentina and abroad—that profits from the counterfeiting business. Any deal with the IMF is bound to specific conditions, especially with its main supplier, the United States. Argentina must follow guidelines that would not exist without the agreement, but this can hardly excuse Milei—because he was aligned with the U.S. government interests long before he became president.

Milei’s plans can only come to fruition over a long period, but his administration will not last forever. When the deadlines expire, the IMF’s conditions will apply again, and future administrations could also roll back important improvements made by Milei. This pendulum of democracy alone is sufficient for promoting radical political decentralization and secession, but Milei has not done so.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...f-Javier-Milei

[ClaytonB]

Mises.org

They make some questionable editorial choices sometimes, also. This article is garbage wall-of-text. "Persuasion by metric ton."

[Swordsmyth]

Via: Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...citizen-rights

Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights.

The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data to predict future crimes”. It is also expected to deploy facial recognition software to identify “wanted persons”, patrol social media, and analyse real-time security camera footage to detect suspicious activities.

https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=70462

[unknown]

We know he's an Izraeli Firster, now he's apparently setting up a police type surveillance State.

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqMjbo4vbBk

[Bern]

https://x.com/LibertarianDuty/status...94182227640828

[WarriorLiberty]

https://x.com/LibertarianDuty/status...94182227640828

Not according to the World Bank.

[Bern]

I'm guessing you didn't actually watch the video and understand what Milei was saying.

[WarriorLiberty]

I'm guessing you didn't actually watch the video and understand what Milei was saying.

Sorry i honestly don't support the clown Milei.

[Bern]

https://x.com/pmbug/status/1865095590238994848

[Bern]

https://x.com/InMilei/status/1865361750020817119

Source video:
https://x.com/aetchebarne/status/1865358667127693506

[PAF]

https://x.com/InMilei/status/1865361750020817119

Source video:
https://x.com/aetchebarne/status/1865358667127693506

The "best minds" [technocrats and other] are not needed or wanted in government. They are using that ploy to transfer wealth from the low/middle class to the 1%. The only solution is to get completely out of the way, otherwise it is more "Bait and Switch" and power to the elites.


[SNIP]

Mises Wire
Antony P. Mueller
10/29/2024

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Where is Milei’s anarcho-capitalism, one wonders? There is little to see of this. He is pursuing a policy that the International Monetary Fund has already prescribed for many debtor countries. Governments have often followed the IMF’s requirements rather reluctantly. The Argentinian president does it voluntarily and to an even harsher extent. To reform an entire country abruptly in an anarcho-capitalist way is an impossibility. It would probably be better if Milei took a different path: that of private free cities or special economic zones.


https://mises.org/mises-wire/nine-mo...cal-assessment

[WarriorLiberty]

The "best minds" [technocrats and other] are not needed or wanted in government. They are using that ploy to transfer wealth from the low/middle class to the 1%. The only solution is to get completely out of the way, otherwise it is more "Bait and Switch" and power to the elites.


[SNIP]

Mises Wire
Antony P. Mueller
10/29/2024

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Where is Milei’s anarcho-capitalism, one wonders? There is little to see of this. He is pursuing a policy that the International Monetary Fund has already prescribed for many debtor countries. Governments have often followed the IMF’s requirements rather reluctantly. The Argentinian president does it voluntarily and to an even harsher extent. To reform an entire country abruptly in an anarcho-capitalist way is an impossibility. It would probably be better if Milei took a different path: that of private free cities or special economic zones.


https://mises.org/mises-wire/nine-mo...cal-assessment

I dont think he might stand a change next year's election.

Considering he fired/replaced the Argentinian amb at the UN because they voted to lift the Cuban embargo.
And you have Javier Milei supporting Israel.

[Anti Federalist]

https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1866669428940685713

[CaptUSA]

https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1866669428940685713

[PAF]

https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1866669428940685713

Nine Months of Javier Milei as President of Argentina: A Critical Assessment


Also, just because:

Javier Milei’s Government Will Monitor Social Media With AI To ‘Predict Future Crimes’


Because, why can't there be freedom without dystopian authoritarian strings attached?

[Swordsmyth]

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1867044149482099107

[ClaytonB]

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1867044149482099107

It's time to retire this old wives' tale: "That's your economic theory. Our economic theory says different."

This is as retarded as having "your physics" and "my physics". Economic theory -- actual economics, as exemplified by the Austrian school -- isn't about opinions. It's about unalterable facts of reality. If you increase the MW, you will increase unemployment, all else equal. That's not an opinion, it's an unalterable fact. Much of the political discourse consists of opinions for which there is no easy method to find out who is right (doesn't mean it's impossible, it's just not easy). But when it comes to basic facts of economics, there are clear and relatively easy answers to be had, all one has to do is read a good book on economics. Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson is a great starting-point and I believe Milei has recommended everyone to read that.

The meteoric rise of Argentina on the world stage is a concrete demonstration of this reality -- real economists are not just grumpy apologists for country-club Republicanism which I hate anyway. No, they are explaining the facts of reality, and you can live in denial of reality (and have a collapsing, fiat-money-based, debt-enslaved country)... or you can listen to the truth, accept the unalterable facts of economic reality, and make policy decisions accordingly. This is the same dilemma facing all ~200 nations in the world today. Keep living in denial, if you choose, but you and your people will continue to pay the penalty in the form of ever-increasing destitution.

The global plutocracy are the only ones who are winning from the status quo. American elites -- both Democrat and Republican -- have more in common with European elites than with ordinary Americans. This is true for the plutocrat class of every nation. Until this lesson is really absorbed by The People, nothing is ever really going to change. Stop allowing globalism to destroy your economy so that some random precinct governor in South America can add a third yacht to his collection in Barbados. That's where all your "foreign aid" is really going. Yacht collections.

WAKE UP

[CCTelander]

Nine Months of Javier Milei as President of Argentina: A Critical Assessment


Also, just because:

Javier Milei’s Government Will Monitor Social Media With AI To ‘Predict Future Crimes’


Because, why can't there be freedom without dystopian authoritarian strings attached?

If there are “dystopian authoritarian strings attached” it ain’t freedom. But nobody gives a crap about freedom anyway, so…

[CaptUSA]

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1867044149482099107

What is this showing exactly???

2025 "estimates"?? And is the baseline 2023??

[Invisible Man]

What is this showing exactly???

2025 "estimates"?? And is the baseline 2023??

Great questions. At first it looked incredible. Then you start asking, wait, what even is this? Why is the USA's GDP less than Nigeria's?

[CaptUSA]

Great questions. At first it looked incredible. Then you start asking, wait, what even is this? Why is the USA's GDP less than Nigeria's?

It's a year-over-year percentage change - not a GDP total. But still... Projected estimates??

[Invisible Man]

It's a year-over-year percentage change - not a GDP total. But still... Projected estimates??

That still doesn't explain everything. If it's a year over year percentage change, then all the nations should start at the same place. All the black dots should be lined up at 100% (or 0%). And the blue dots should diverge from there.

[CaptUSA]

That still doesn't explain everything. If it's a year over year percentage change, then all the nations should start at the same place. All the black dots should be lined up at 100% (or 0%). And the blue dots should diverge from there.

Yeah, it's why I'm guessing that the baseline is 2023.

[Anti Federalist]

Argentina’s Javier Milei Announces 90% Tax Reduction in 2025

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-amer...ction-in-2025/

Christian K. Caruzo 11 Dec 2024

President of Argentina Javier Milei announced Wednesday that his administration is preparing a structural tax reform that will eliminate 90 percent of existing taxes in 2025.

Milei announced the plan, alongside other policies he seeks to implement in his second year in office, while marking the end of his first. Among them was a plan to negotiate a trade deal with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration once he takes office in January.

Tuesday marked one year since Milei took office on December 10, 2023, and became Argentina’s first libertarian president, succeeding socialist former President Alberto Fernández. At the time he took office, Argentina faced a severe economic crisis that dramatically worsened as a result of Fernández’s disastrous socialist policies. Milei implemented a series of drastic “shock therapy” measures to avert the collapse of the country’s economy and avoid a hyperinflation spiral.

Milei’s policies successfully reduced the inflation rate in Argentina, dropping it from 25.5 percent in December 2023 to 2.7 percent in October 2024 while also allowing the nation to experience ten months of continued trade surplus as of November.

Additionally, Milei spearheaded a dramatic overhaul of the Argentine government during his first year, reducing the number of ministries from 18 to nine on his first day and outright replacing other institutions — such as Argentina’s bloated AFIP revenue service, which was dissolved and substituted with a much smaller agency in November. The Argentine president also introduced a series of sweeping reforms that Congress passed in late June.

Milei marked his first year in office by delivering a speech in the evening hours of Tuesday in the company of his ministers and members of his administration. He reviewed the results of his policies and announced a series of upcoming measures.

In his roughly 35-minute speech, Milei thanked Argentines for electing him and for “having endured, as you did, the hard months we had at the beginning of our administration,” assuring that their sacrifice “will not be in vain.”

“There is a saying that says ‘good times create weak men, weak men create hard times, hard times create strong men, and it is strong men who create good times.’ This year, we Argentines have proven to be strong men and women, forged in the heat of difficult times,” Milei said.

“We have shown that, when a people touches the bottom of the abyss, its urgency to undertake a deep and irreversible change becomes a true force of nature,” he continued.

Milei stressed that his administration will continue with his economic reforms throughout 2025 and to that end, he stated that his administration is currently finalizing a “structural tax reform” that will reduce the amount of national taxes by 90 percent while restoring tax autonomy to Argentina’s provinces.

“Thus, next year we will see a real tax competition among the Argentine provinces to see who will attract the most investment,” Milei said.

The Argentine president ensured that his administration will also eliminate existing currency control measures inherited by his government next year and stated that there would be a “free competition of currencies” which, Milei explained, will allow “all Argentines will be able to use the currency they want in their daily transactions.”

“This means that from now on every Argentinean will be able to buy, sell and invoice in dollars or the currency they consider, except for the payment of taxes, which for now will continue to be in pesos,” Milei said.

The Argentine president posited that it is also essential to “break the foreign trade chains that are currently suffocating us” to accelerate the country’s economic recovery. Argentina is a member of the regional Mercosur trade bloc, a group that Milei has fiercely criticized in the past and which he now holds its pro-tempore presidency as of last week.

Milei proposed the elimination of tariff barriers among Mercosur members and added that one of his administration’s goals in Mercosur is to “increase the autonomy of the members of the organization vis-à-vis the rest of the world, so that each country can trade freely with whomever it wants as it suits them.” One of those trade deals, he said, would hopefully be a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States next year — something that, Milei said, “should have been signed 19 years ago.”

“Imagine how much we would have grown in these two decades if we had traded with the world’s leading power. All that growth was taken away from us with the simple signature of a group of bureaucrats, who refused to accept the benefits of free trade,” Milei said.

“In this way, Argentina will stop turning its back on the world and will once again be a protagonist of world trade, because there is no prosperity without trade and there is no trade without freedom,” he continued.

Milei said that his administration will continue with the deregularization and reduction of public spending throughout his second year through a “ruthless audit” that will see the elimination of unnecessary agencies, secretariats, public companies, and state institutions.

Other upcoming policies announced by Milei include proposing an “anti-mafia” law inspired by the United States’ Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to fight against organized crime, federal police reforms, the creation of an “anti-narcoterrorism” unit in cooperation with Mercosur to combat drug trafficking in the tri-border area that Argentina shares with Brazil and Paraguay, and the “imminent presentation of a plan to build new nuclear reactors and research small or modular reactor technologies,” among others.

Milei observed that 2025 will see Argentina hold midterm legislative elections and stressed that “unlike what politicians usually do, who in election years spend their time squandering the money of all Argentines” his administration would “do something different” and continue implementing his economic reforms.

“It is unique in the history of modern democracies that a government begins the election year without an expansionary fiscal and monetary policy, because that is precisely the logic of the past that has sunk us,” Milei said. “We are not going to fall into this temptation that seduced the caste, because we are the future and the prosperity.”

“We are going to continue our adjustment program to be able to lower taxes and return money to the private sector, and we are going to put on the table an agenda of profound reforms, developed on the pillars that I told you about today, so that society can legally choose which country it wants,” he continued.

The Argentine president concluded by stating that Argentina is heading towards a “future of prosperity” and said 2024 will be remembered as the “first year of the new Argentina.” Milei further stressed that, unlike other moments in the nation’s history where hope was based “on empty words, we have brought results.”

“You can see them, you can feel them. That future of prosperity is within our reach. There is nothing you can do to prevent it: you can get on the train of progress or you can be run over by it,” Milei said.

[PAF]

Argentina’s Javier Milei Announces 90% Tax Reduction in 2025

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-amer...ction-in-2025/

Christian K. Caruzo 11 Dec 2024

President of Argentina Javier Milei announced Wednesday that his administration is preparing a structural tax reform that will eliminate 90 percent of existing taxes in 2025.

Milei announced the plan, alongside other policies he seeks to implement in his second year in office, while marking the end of his first. Among them was a plan to negotiate a trade deal with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration once he takes office in January.

Tuesday marked one year since Milei took office on December 10, 2023, and became Argentina’s first libertarian president, succeeding socialist former President Alberto Fernández. At the time he took office, Argentina faced a severe economic crisis that dramatically worsened as a result of Fernández’s disastrous socialist policies. Milei implemented a series of drastic “shock therapy” measures to avert the collapse of the country’s economy and avoid a hyperinflation spiral.

Milei’s policies successfully reduced the inflation rate in Argentina, dropping it from 25.5 percent in December 2023 to 2.7 percent in October 2024 while also allowing the nation to experience ten months of continued trade surplus as of November.

Additionally, Milei spearheaded a dramatic overhaul of the Argentine government during his first year, reducing the number of ministries from 18 to nine on his first day and outright replacing other institutions — such as Argentina’s bloated AFIP revenue service, which was dissolved and substituted with a much smaller agency in November. The Argentine president also introduced a series of sweeping reforms that Congress passed in late June.

Milei marked his first year in office by delivering a speech in the evening hours of Tuesday in the company of his ministers and members of his administration. He reviewed the results of his policies and announced a series of upcoming measures.

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Breitbart? Don't they subscribe to the Keynesian economic model and not the Austrian?

I wanted to cross-reference but the links within the Breitbart article cross-reference to Breitbart. At least Mises.org provides charts and tables, and notes that once Javier leaves office the country will be beholden to the IMF.

A Rothbardian Dissection of Javier Milei


I know that some couldn't care less and it gets ignored, but I don't consider any positives[?] a good trade for dystopian authoritarianism:

Javier Milei’s Government Will Monitor Social Media With AI To ‘Predict Future Crimes’