Re: ping Adam

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?
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Rhino