“Make Argentina Great Again!”

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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US inflation feels bad until you look at Argentina’s, which is breaking 200 percent. Today, Explained’s Sean Rameswaram reports from Buenos Aires, where residents are divided over their new anarcho-capitalist President Javier Milei’s shock therapy. This episode was reported by Sean Rameswaram, produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, engineered by David Herman with help from Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last November, today explained to did an episode about Argentina's runoff election.
0:05.8	On one side, you had a colorless economic minister.
0:08.8	I mean, said heomaster has about as much as charisma as a wooden plank.
0:12.1	On the other side, a chainsaw-wielding mutton-chopped
0:15.2	anarcho-capitalist who cloned his dead dog five times.
0:18.9	And guess which guy won?
0:21.4	Javier Malay won, and this past weekend weekend Noel he paid us a visit in Washington DC at
0:26.2	CPAC on stage he was talking about his economic agenda backstage he was
0:31.6	awkwardly hugging Donald Trump.
0:33.6	They kept repeating this refrain
0:35.4	that they're gonna make.
0:36.4	Back home, he's inflicting a ton of economic pain
0:42.2	on Argentine's, and the majority of them are okay with it.
0:45.0	At least that's what we heard so Sean I put you on a plane and sent you to
0:49.6	investigate. I went all the way to Argentina to find out what their crazy inflation can teach us about ours,
0:55.0	and I'm going to tell you all about it on Today Explained.
1:00.0	Hi, this is Kara Swisher, host of On with Kara Swisher from New York magazine and
1:06.0	Vox Media.
1:07.2	This week on the podcast I sat down with Roberta Kaplan, the renowned lawyer who recently
1:11.3	represented E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case against
1:14.3	former President Donald Trump and won.
1:17.1	$83.3 million, won. Not too shabby.
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