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On 2024-11-20 11:06 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-11-20 3:41 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> I'm 20 minutes into a long-form interview with Javier Millei, the
>>>> President of Argentina, and it seems to me that you would find this very
>>>> interesting. He's an economist and I know that's a strong interest of
>>>> yours. So far, he has talked about the various economists he's studied
>>>> to come to his current views, particularly the Austrian School - Hayek,
>>>> Von Mises, etc. - and some of their Hispanic followers. Milton Friedman
>>>> was also important to him. I'm just at the point where he is starting to
>>>> describe the state of the Argentinian economy when he took office and
>>>> the steps he took to get it back on track. According to the
>>>> introduction of the interviewer, Lex Fridman, he will also discuss what
>>>> else needs to be done to make Argentina the most free country in the world.
> 
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLzc9kobDk [2 hours]
> 
>>> He read von Mises and the other Austrian school economists by himself.
>>> Fascinating. Just a little bit of political economy.
> 
>>> Thanks
> 
>> He even has a special interest in Judaism which he mentions later in the
>> video but which I hadn't seen when I wrote the post.
> 
> He had converted a number of years ago.
> 
If he mentioned that in the video, I missed it. But it sounds like you 
already know this from some other source.

>> Toward the end, he also reveals more of his personal side with his
>> boundless admiration of certain soccer players and his favourite band.
>> An interesting guy!
> 
> His party doesn't have a majority. Any changes he makes can be reversed.

Show me any political change that can't be reversed. Trump made policies 
and Biden reversed some of them; Trump will presumably reverse the 
changes Biden made if he feels strongly about them. Even your 
Constitution can be changed via an established process. (It's not easy - 
by design - but it's been done several times.)

I find myself curious about how Milei came to head a political party of 
any kind. He seems like the kind of idea guy who never actually gets a 
shot at implementing his idea(s) and, at most, becomes an adviser to the 
guy in charge. If his boss lets him try something and it's not 
immediately a tremendous success, the boss backs away from it for fear 
of losing power. Milei is the first idea guy I can think of in a long 
time that seems to be relatively free to do what he wants.

Maybe Argentina is in such a dire state that everyone understands that 
the existing system was so bad that some major change in direction had 
to be taken and Milei was the only one with a new approach that seemed 
like it might work?

-- 
Rhino