The $40 billion Argentina bailout.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, Argentinian President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances) party won approximately 41% of the national vote in the country’s midterms, outperforming polling expectations and more than doubling its representation in the next congress. The result gives Milei additional legislative support to uphold presidential vetoes and block impeachment efforts. It also serves as a vote of confidence in his administration, which has prioritized spending cuts and other large-scale reforms. In the weeks before the election, the Trump administration also provided $40 billion in financial support to stabilize the country’s currency and markets.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | And please forget views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Sullivan. |
| 0:28.8 | On today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Argentine election and the U.S. bailout, $40 billion. |
| 0:37.2 | And I'm going to share some views from the right and the left. |
| 0:40.2 | And then my take, before we jump in, though, a quick heads up. |
| 0:45.0 | We had a podcast that came out last week that I just wanted to flag for people in case you missed it. |
| 0:51.7 | We got to sit down with Ethan Strauss of House of Strauss fame, |
| 0:56.3 | really awesome sports and culture writer, |
| 0:58.5 | whom I really appreciate chatting with. |
| 1:02.2 | He came on the show to talk about the NBA gambling scandal, |
| 1:05.4 | and then, honestly, we just couldn't get rid of him. |
| 1:08.8 | We joked. |
| 1:10.4 | We kind of tried to, like, transition the next topic, and he just said, I'll stick around |
| 1:15.0 | and chat. |
| 1:15.8 | We were like, okay. |
| 1:18.7 | And I'm glad he did, because he's awesome. |
| 1:21.3 | And we should have had the plan to keep him on the show the whole time as it was. |
| 1:26.1 | Super funny guy, really smart dude, |
| 1:28.7 | and a great addition to Camille and Ari and I's conversation. So I just want to flag it for you. |
| 1:34.2 | It's one of my favorite episodes yet that we've put out of suspension of the rules. It's a couple |
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