Milei's Argentine Revolution? With Stephan Livera - WBD739
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Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stephan Livera is the host of the Stephan Livera Podcast, and head of education at Swan Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss Argentina’s newly elected Libertarian President, Javier Milei. We talk about his policies, dollarisation, abolition of the central bank and whether he can truly tame Argentina's inflation problem.
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A few days ago Javier Milei became the world's first anarcho-capitalist leader after his success in Argentina's recent elections. The win signals a big shift in the country's political ideology and economic ambition. His campaign promised to bring libertarian principles for a nation tired of economic troubles & ready for change.
Milei ran his campaign on defunding and dismantling government bureaucracies, abolition of the central bank, and a mass privatisation of state enterprises and dollarization, in an attempt to stabilise Argentina's chronic high-inflation. While these are radical changes, radical may be exactly what Argentina needs and he struck a chord with voters desperate for a departure from perpetual economic crises.
As perhaps the most well-known libertarian politician since Ron Paul, all eyes will be on Milei over the next four years. Can he bring economic stability to Argentina? Will he be able to navigate the political structures without becoming corrupted? Will he really follow through on dismantling the government? And, will this usher in a new wave of Libertarian politicians across the world?
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Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/mileis-argentine-revolution
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe he can try to remove subsidies, maybe he can remove labour market regulations, maybe he can lower the taxes and lower the spending. |
| 0:09.0 | Fundamentally, as a libertarian you just want to lower the spending, lower the side of the state, lower the taxes. |
| 0:14.1 | Get out of the way. |
| 0:15.1 | Hello there, how are you all doing? |
| 0:17.7 | It's been a crazy week. |
| 0:19.4 | Seems like we always have crazy weeks in the world of Bitcoin. |
| 0:22.1 | Firstly, we had the election of |
| 0:23.8 | Havier Milay in Argentina now we had all the craziness with finance yesterday. |
| 0:28.2 | What a world would live in. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast |
| 0:31.8 | which is brought to you by the massive |
| 0:33.0 | legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100% renewable energy. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today I've got my old buddy fellow podcaster Seth An Lavere back on the show after a long hiatus. |
| 0:45.7 | Now just a few days ago Argentina made history by electing the first ever anarcho-capitalist world |
| 0:51.0 | leader. |
| 0:52.0 | Havey Emile Mille is now in charge and promising some pretty radical changes, |
| 0:56.0 | but radical changes that could see what Argentina needs. |
| 0:59.0 | Radical changes that maybe aren't radical, that actually are common sense. Now I recently |
| 1:04.8 | went to Argentina I made a documentary ahead of the election I was looking at what |
| 1:09.2 | I was happening with inflation in the country and who people thought could win the election. So if you haven't checked |
| 1:14.3 | that out, gone to my YouTube channel and search for follow the money, you will see it there. I think |
| 1:18.8 | it's the fourth film I've made on this series. Anyway, I sat down with Danny I was like we've got to |
| 1:24.3 | make a show about this and he was like who do you want to talk to I was like come |
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