What Trump and Musk think they can learn from Argentina’s Javier Milei

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump may have ruffled feathers with his closest neighbors in recent weeks, but he has a willing ally in South America. Argentina’s President Javier Milei has become something of a hero in the MAGA movement for his populist style and radical economic reforms. Will the love affair outlast an era of tariff-wielding? Host Anne McElvoy talks to Federico Sturzenegger, the former president of Argentina’s central bank and an economist at Harvard. He is now leading the Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation under Milei. They discuss whether the South American free-market experiment provides a catalyst for Trump’s vision for the United States' economy and the wider world, and whether Margaret Thatcher — elected as Britain's Conservative Party leader 50 years ago this week — is an inspiration for Milei. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm
0:00.8	liberal, libertarious,
0:02.5	I'm not going to
0:03.0	do that type
0:03.5	of porqueria.
0:04.1	I think in the
0:04.7	liberty.
0:05.5	No,
0:05.6	I think,
0:06.0	that the
0:07.3	politicians are
0:08.1	Doses.
0:09.6	Donald Trump
0:10.4	may have
0:10.9	ruffled feathers
0:11.6	with his
0:11.9	closest
0:12.3	neighbors in
0:13.1	recent weeks,
0:14.1	but he
0:14.4	has a willing
0:14.9	ally to
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