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#NewWorldReport: Milei takes command and presses ahead for dollarization despite pain. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#NewWorldReport: Milei takes command and presses ahead for dollarization despite pain. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/markets/argentina-braces-economic-shock-package-peso-shackled-2023-12-12/

1924 Argentina

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0:00.0

Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,

0:05.6

Cervesa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.

0:08.6

In the Penly on unbrooding Galia since 1906, 100% authentic. But not all Spanish beers are what

0:18.8

they seem, a bit like me. I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estreia Galicia. Spanish. Not Spanish. This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

0:39.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:42.0

The New World Report with Professor Avenignellis of the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

0:48.0

The breaking news in America, in South America, in economic circles is Argentina has a new president.

0:56.7

His name is Milay.

0:58.2

Aviar Milay.

0:59.7

He is also a trained economist and a very subtle TV star,

1:05.0

subtle.

1:06.5

However, right now we're concerned with the orders

1:09.8

he's given as president about the peso and what he called dollarization during the campaign.

1:16.7

The headlines in Reuters tells a story.

1:19.7

Argentina braces for economic shock package as peso shackled.

1:25.8

Argentina's new government will lay out its economic shock therapy in a bid to rein in

1:31.0

triple digit inflation and rebuild depleted foreign currency reserves.

1:36.5

The dollar, long used in Argentina for genuine trade and barter and purchases is is kept by people I'm told in

1:46.8

coffee cans under beds and outside the country for fear that it will be

1:50.6

confiscated by previous governments. Right now the Argentina, as I understand it,

1:57.6

need confidence in their new government in order to return the dollars to the economy.

2:03.0

There's much more and the professor can help me.

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