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A little piece of heaven

Today 06:00 The launch of libertarian shock troops Las Fuerzas de Cielo was but one of various seismic movements in this jacaranda month of November.

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A not so decisive decision

16-11-2024 05:52 This week’s court ruling seems to have done nothing to derail the widespread expectation of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner running in next year’s midterms as the focal opposition leader.

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Trump card, or joker?

09-11-2024 06:06 Milei is entitled to celebrate the convincing Republican win as a supreme booster for a global trend towards the far right but would be rather less accurate if he hailed it as an advance of his libertarian crusade against the deep state.

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Another one bites the dust

02-11-2024 06:50 The fiscal and macro-economic stability so obsessively sought by President Milei finds its antithesis in extreme administrative volatility, when political fragmentation could be permitting calmer waters.

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A totalitarian all or a nihilistic nothing

26-10-2024 05:27 While verbally aspiring to ending Kirchnerism, Milei is doing much to revive it with his modus operandi.

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Obscurity obstructs security

19-10-2024 06:46 Both Peronism and the business world are undergoing a transitional phase.

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Reducing the issue

12-10-2024 06:16 Both sides fall into the error of reducing this issue to a budget tussle without bringing up the major structural problems of university education.

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It’s the education, stupid

05-10-2024 06:24 When presenting the 2025 Budget in mid-September, Milei defined his fundamental fiscal principle as first defining the available revenue and then adjusting the spending to it – modernising the university system to that end could be an interesting application of that principle. But instead his primitive proposal is literally to cut university spending in half with his chainsaw.

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The Wall Street shuffle

28-09-2024 06:27 Milei doubtless imagined that he was ringing his own Liberty Bell but it was also a self-excommunication from the international community which might well send alarm-bells ringing, not least among Wall Street investors.

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Painting without numbers

21-09-2024 00:36 Milei’s maximalist stance last Sunday might have experience in mind: the logic of only obtaining half of the requested still being a substantial gain.

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Nobody wins

14-09-2024 06:37 Milei risks his popularity with insensitivity towards pensioners in the name of maintaining a fiscal surplus.

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Making public private

07-09-2024 05:55 Not the first contradiction with its self-image but a government calling itself libertarian and seeking to restrict access to public information is really starting to take the biscuit.

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Libertarian entrapment

31-08-2024 05:21 The paradox of a libertarian government revering the free market while unable to exit bureaucratic Kirchnerite capital controls has already drawn comment but the reduction of the PAIS tax exposes another contradiction.

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Tinkering and tailoring the judge and the spy

24-08-2024 05:55 While “Big Brother” espionage would seem to contradict the libertarian creed in general, the nomination of the controversial federal judge Ariel Lijo for the Supreme Court flies in the face of Milei’s electoral crusade against a corrupt “caste.”

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Inflation down on its all fours?

17-08-2024 05:39 The main obstacle to zero inflation is zero certainty as to the future.

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In default and by default

10-08-2024 05:45 The moral bankruptcy of the main opposition front is a vital lifeline for a government facing enormous difficulties in restructuring Argentina.

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Between Tucumán and Asunción

13-07-2024 07:44 President Milei’s decision to skip the Mercosur summit does more to compromise Argentina’s future than his photograph and 10-point pact does to advance it.

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Are youth votes wasted on the young?

06-07-2024 05:27 Electoral opportunism is at work.

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When Loan is a national debt

29-06-2024 04:22 On the nationwide clamour for the reappearance of a missing child.

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And so it begins

22-06-2024 05:03 Javier Milei now prepares to move into the second half of the calendar year amid every indication of a whole new ball game.

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Bases loaded with grand slam yet to come

15-06-2024 06:50 The Senate vote was a close-run thing but perhaps Milei gains more from near defeat within Congress and violence outside than from a comfortable and peaceful victory.

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Risky Investment Guarantee Inconsistencies

01-06-2024 05:45 The primacy of the fiscal over the economic causes problems elsewhere.

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The pain in Spain falls mainly on the gain

25-05-2024 06:35 This dispute is far more easily personalised as being between President Milei and Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez rather than between the two nations.

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Single digit should not mean single issue

18-05-2024 06:13 Single-digit inflation relieves the poor more than anybody but comes at a price – must they also be the ones to pay it?

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Contradictions and multitudes

11-05-2024 06:07 The Javier Milei Presidency has never been short of contradictions.

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Loading the bases

04-05-2024 05:43 With a government yet to complete its first 150 days and Senate passage of Milei’s mega-law still lying ahead, we are not even at the end of the beginning.

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Missing the point

27-04-2024 05:38 Milei misread the demonstration as “the caste” riding a noble cause to defend its interests but the scale, spontaneity and peaceful nature of the protest argue against this bid to politicise the march.

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Pre-paid or re-paid?

20-04-2024 05:14 Subordinating medical fees to the dictates of a usually populist government did not work since it placed pricing hopelessly out of sync with the costs, but the naïve faith that the market could correct the damage of years in three months was a non-starter.

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The medium as the message

13-04-2024 05:54 Milei is the leader of a pack which competes to be the most outrageous but this week he seems to have been trumped by an underling: Alberto ‘Bertie’ Benegas Lynch.

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Mixed messages

06-04-2024 06:29 While Argentina’s government has turned full circle between the two Easters from leftist populism to far right devotees of the market calling themselves libertarians, inflation persists as the basic fact of life .

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The forces of Earth

30-03-2024 05:15 All the suffering of Good Friday was followed by Resurrection Sunday but can we be sure of the same sequence for Argentina?

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48 years and 100 days later

23-03-2024 06:34 Tomorrow is the 48th anniversary of the 1976 military coup, while last Tuesday marked the classic first 100 days of the Javier Milei Presidency.

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Belling terror

16-03-2024 06:41 The solution to drug crime bloodshed in Rosario is far from being as brutally simple as the problem, as some would seem to think.

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The Pact of May (or maybe?)

09-03-2024 06:30 This month and the next stand to be the eye of a perfect storm – a rare moment in the always abnormal Argentine economy which is a nightmare for spenders and savers alike.

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Pouring oil on the flames

02-03-2024 05:57 If the spark that lit the fire was the threat of Chubut’s PRO Governor Ignacio Torres to cut off all oil and gas unless the cutbacks were reversed, this might appear a wild outburst – but it was less random and accidental than it might seem.

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Poverty also in the debate

24-02-2024 06:08 Discussing figures is one thing and denialism quite another – this applies to the human rights debate and it also applies to poverty.

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The summer of our discontent

17-02-2024 06:14 There is every reason to fear a vicious circle of devaluation and inflation continuing.

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Who crashed the omnibus?

10-02-2024 06:47 The government must be considered the chief architect of the self-destruction of its megalomaniac omnibus bill.

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An omnibus not for everybody

02-02-2024 14:46 Uncertainty is by no means limited to the final outcome of Javier Milei's bill in Congress.

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The four horsemen

27-01-2024 07:35 The general strike should be deemed not so much a success or a failure as a somewhat irrelevant blip within what gives every indication of being a long hot summer and a traumatic year.

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More holes than a Swiss cheese?

20-01-2024 06:57 No matter the distance from home, Argentine leaders always seem to be speaking to domestic galleries when addressing international audiences.

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Prices out of the market

12-01-2024 15:24 President Milei wants to avoid the failures of Mauricio Macri’s gradualism but the shock approach might have too short a fuse.

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His own worst enemy?

06-01-2024 06:06 By multiplying the contents in its economic deregulation package, the government has only multiplied the already formidable obstacles lying ahead in Congress, adding the physical impossibility of finding the time to the stiff challenges of gaining approval with only tiny caucuses of almost embarrassingly raw legislators.

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An electoral 2023 ends... and an electric 2024 begins

31-12-2023 08:14 The standard greeting of “Happy New Year” would represent wishful thinking rather than any real expectations when it comes to 2024, as President Javier Milei would be the first to insist.

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Will crunch come to Grinch?

23-12-2023 06:55 While opinions are divided on whether Milei is finally transforming Argentina into a modern country or going disastrously wrong, there is a third option – that he is going nowhere in particular.

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The lion enters his jungle

16-12-2023 06:03 Milei cannot be accused of not warning us that things would get much worse before they got better – what he did not say was how he would be moving in the opposite direction of the firebrand rhetoric he deployed during his pre-presidential existence.

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Exit Alberto... and enter Milei

09-12-2023 08:01 Milei has to be seen as a work in progress – even if many would see him as a piece of work. But one thing is certain, he is where the buck stops, as from today.

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The beginning of the end?

02-12-2023 10:18 If the popular vote failed to rally to defend acquired rights against Milei’s chainsaw, it is because those rights have been emptied for too many people falling outside the system.

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Destination unknown

25-11-2023 13:34 Milei is a man of multiple contradictions too numerous for this space but he is about to face the biggest contradiction of them all – the outsider is days away from going inside.

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A long road ends and a journey begins

18-11-2023 06:08 Nothing ends irreversibly tomorrow – rather than any apocalypse now, it needs to be seen within the grander context of these four continuing decades of democracy.

News of editorial

A little piece of heaven

A not so decisive decision

Trump card, or joker?

Another one bites the dust

A totalitarian all or a nihilistic nothing

Obscurity obstructs security

Reducing the issue

It’s the education, stupid

The Wall Street shuffle

Painting without numbers

Nobody wins

Making public private

Libertarian entrapment

Tinkering and tailoring the judge and the spy

Inflation down on its all fours?

In default and by default

Between Tucumán and Asunción

Are youth votes wasted on the young?

When Loan is a national debt

And so it begins

Bases loaded with grand slam yet to come

Risky Investment Guarantee Inconsistencies

The pain in Spain falls mainly on the gain

Single digit should not mean single issue

Contradictions and multitudes

Loading the bases

Missing the point

Pre-paid or re-paid?

The medium as the message

Mixed messages

The forces of Earth

48 years and 100 days later

Belling terror

The Pact of May (or maybe?)

Pouring oil on the flames

Poverty also in the debate

The summer of our discontent

Who crashed the omnibus?

An omnibus not for everybody

The four horsemen

More holes than a Swiss cheese?

Prices out of the market

His own worst enemy?

An electoral 2023 ends... and an electric 2024 begins

Will crunch come to Grinch?

The lion enters his jungle

Exit Alberto... and enter Milei

The beginning of the end?

Destination unknown

A long road ends and a journey begins

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