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#ARGENTINA: May 25 and the May Pact for reform. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ.

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

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#ARGENTINA: May 25 and the May Pact for reform. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-milei-fear-dollarization-policy-economy-currency-fae2e379
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Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is a

0:26.0

CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Argentina, much in the news since the presidential election delivered a

0:30.5

libertarian Javier Malay with television skills and a great deal to say about what is to be done to rescue the

0:39.4

Argentinian economy from examples that we have most recently of according to UNICEF approaching

0:47.7

a 70% childhood poverty rate and extreme poverty is going from 19% to 34%.

0:55.0

There are also photographs and Reuters most recent reporting of garbage picking going on in the capital city because of the price of food on the

1:04.5

fruit stands. I welcome Marianastasia Grady of the America's column at the

1:09.8

Wall Street Journal editorial page writing about Haver Malay, his plans at a meeting in late May, May 25th in a province called

1:18.4

Cordoba. Marry a very good evening to you this gathering of the

1:22.1

governors and the dignitaries of Argentina, I understand

1:26.9

Mr. Malay has a plan, a 10-point plan, and a new statement, something called the May

1:32.4

PAC. What is it? and what does it look to good evening to you well good evening John

1:38.0

Javier Malay took office on December 10th and I think from day one even before he took office his problem was

1:47.0

going to be governability I mean habeer Malay has all the right ideas about

1:52.4

what creates wealth, low taxes, open markets, stable money, free,

2:01.8

light regulatory touch, a light tax set of policies. But he is coming up against a very

2:10.4

large welfare state that hasn't been in place for generations and he has to

2:15.8

figure out how to dismantle that because it the fiscal burden it puts and the

2:22.4

regulatory burden but really the fiscal burden that

2:25.9

Argentina carries is quite heavy so he's got to get reforms through Congress.

2:33.3

And he proposed an omnibus bill that had 664 articles in it,

2:39.6

and that bill failed. He had to withdraw it because he couldn't get it through Congress.

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