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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2473 Javier Milei Update: How He's Doing Against the Bad Guys

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Argentina's Javier Milei has an uphill battle ahead of him to reverse the damage previous leaders have done to Argentinian economy and society, but he's clever and continues to enjoy popular support. Skot Sheller joins us for an update. Sponsors: & Guest's Twitter: @BowTiedMara Guest's Website: Free State Project:

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0:00.0

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:05.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:11.0

Hey everybody, welcome to episode 2473 of the Tom Woods show with our old friend

0:16.5

Scott Scheller who introduced me at Port Fest several years ago before I

0:21.2

gave my little talk there in addition to being a free state project

0:24.9

Louver. He's been following the situation in Argentina pretty closely, well

0:29.6

before Javier Malay came along, but he's also had a particular interest in it.

0:35.0

Well, in fact, I don't want to steal your thunder because you have a little bit of an interesting background vis-à-vis Argentina.

0:40.0

So first of all, welcome Scott.

0:42.0

Thanks, Tom. It's a great honor.

0:43.8

I started getting to Argentina in like 2012.

0:47.1

Prior to that, I probably couldn't even spot it on a map

0:49.9

like most Americans.

0:51.6

But I read an article in fee in like 2012 that detailed the

0:56.4

tremendous rise economically and then it's a hundred year decline which was

1:01.6

fascinating then shortly after I got into Doug Casey, who has lived in a

1:07.7

dozen countries, he's visited over 140 countries, and Argentina is his favorite country in the world.

1:14.4

So I found that very interesting and then when 2015 when I met my wife who's an

1:19.3

Argentinian with a and her father Carlos Salgado is a brilliant PhD Austrian economist in Argentina.

1:28.2

I was like, I'm sold and ever since then I've just been hyper-drived in an Argentinian politics, which are always fascinating.

1:39.0

And that led me up to Malay in 2018 when he finally got into the scene.

1:45.0

Yeah, so there's a lot to say here.

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