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#NewWorldReport: Milei gets a small break in inflation. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. We're going to be. This is

0:29.5

This is CBS On The World, the New World Report was Professor Avin Alice of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute just returned from Argentina in Buenos Aires

0:36.4

for the announcements and observations of the new President Javier Malay, a libertarian, a man who campaigned with the

0:44.4

chainsaw, and is now following through on that what you'd have to say

0:48.3

metaphorical presentation by cutting off ministries that have long practiced statism in Buenos Aires, hence the imbalance

0:59.4

in the books, the owing of debts that are forgiven every few decades. Now haver Malay is taking an

1:05.8

extreme approach by closing ministries in order to fight inflation. And we have good news.

1:14.2

Argentina inflation, says Reuters, the world's highest, slows down in a boost for

1:21.0

Malay.

1:22.0

Now slowing down is a relative term.

1:24.0

It's gone from something that I keep remembering was about 200% to under 100%.

1:30.0

I can't be anymore except that. It's a moving story, but I'm seeing a

1:35.2

photograph at Reuters taken most recently in January and the price of fruit was outrageously high.

1:45.0

And so what we have here is anything looks like a good direction.

1:48.8

Professor, when you return from Wennissaries, I recall very clearly you said that Malay had three months and I thought

1:56.0

my that's not enough. If you're a baseball player you need more than three months to show what

2:01.6

you can do. Is this an indication

2:04.4

that he's going to have that three months bringing it under 100%?

2:09.3

Well it's certainly a very good sign John And from the very beginning in his inaugural speech,

2:14.4

Malay was clear that what he'd campaigned on,

2:16.6

that need for shock therapy to cut the size of government

2:19.9

to move towards more responsible spending

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