S8 Ep969: PREVIEW: Guest Evan Ellis analyzes Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina. He discusses President Javier Milei’s pro-AI agenda and how attracting tech investment could signal stability and economic growth for the nation.
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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PREVIEW: Guest Evan Ellis analyzes Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina. He discusses President Javier Milei’s pro-AI agenda and how attracting tech investment could signal stability and economic growth for the nation.
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| 1:04.3 | Evan Ellis professor at the US Army War College. I'm John Batchel. The comment is, the news is that Peter Thiel has moved his family |
| 1:14.8 | and himself to Argentina, to Buenos Aires. Peter Thiel, one of the founders of the artificial |
| 1:20.0 | intelligence phenomenon, one of the beginning of the Silicon Valley phenomenon these last |
| 1:26.5 | years, a multi-billionaire. In any event, at the same |
| 1:30.9 | time, a op-ed appears in the Financial Times written by the president of Argentina, Javier Malay, |
| 1:37.1 | in praise of AI and data centers and the beginning of the growth of the economy everywhere |
| 1:44.1 | in the world because of AI. |
| 1:47.0 | And Javier Malay is for it and warns against regulation, |
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