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Javier Milei

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And we can say analysts' hypotheses were suggesting that next year we would be growing between 5% and 6%. Today, JP Morgan has now corrected, or let's say revised the projections upwards. And besides, when we normalize the price situation, the true poverty rate came up and it was 57% in January. Today it is at 46%, meaning we lowered poverty by 11 percentage points.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

Let's say, I mean, it seems truly like a miracle. And not only that, but actually not a single job was lost in the process. When it comes to all of this inflation reduction process, people said that our economy and economic activity would collapse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

Let's say, I mean, it seems truly like a miracle. And not only that, but actually not a single job was lost in the process. When it comes to all of this inflation reduction process, people said that our economy and economic activity would collapse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

Let's say, I mean, it seems truly like a miracle. And not only that, but actually not a single job was lost in the process. When it comes to all of this inflation reduction process, people said that our economy and economic activity would collapse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And actually, when you look at the de-seasonalized data, you see that in August, there was a recovery that took us back to December levels, to December levels. That means that in the year we made the largest fiscal adjustment in the history of humanity, we will end up with less inflation, fewer poor people, better real wages, and additionally, a GDP higher than what we started with.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And actually, when you look at the de-seasonalized data, you see that in August, there was a recovery that took us back to December levels, to December levels. That means that in the year we made the largest fiscal adjustment in the history of humanity, we will end up with less inflation, fewer poor people, better real wages, and additionally, a GDP higher than what we started with.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And actually, when you look at the de-seasonalized data, you see that in August, there was a recovery that took us back to December levels, to December levels. That means that in the year we made the largest fiscal adjustment in the history of humanity, we will end up with less inflation, fewer poor people, better real wages, and additionally, a GDP higher than what we started with.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And if you look at it in dollars, I can assure you that the numbers are phenomenal because basically today the dollar is below the levels we had when we took office.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And if you look at it in dollars, I can assure you that the numbers are phenomenal because basically today the dollar is below the levels we had when we took office.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And if you look at it in dollars, I can assure you that the numbers are phenomenal because basically today the dollar is below the levels we had when we took office.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

So the reality is that in all of this, when you take my popularity levels and the government's acceptance levels, today they are above the moment we assumed office, if you know that the moment of maximum popularity is when you take office. Therefore, this means that far from... Resting on our laurels with this, we're going for more reforms.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

So the reality is that in all of this, when you take my popularity levels and the government's acceptance levels, today they are above the moment we assumed office, if you know that the moment of maximum popularity is when you take office. Therefore, this means that far from... Resting on our laurels with this, we're going for more reforms.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

So the reality is that in all of this, when you take my popularity levels and the government's acceptance levels, today they are above the moment we assumed office, if you know that the moment of maximum popularity is when you take office. Therefore, this means that far from... Resting on our laurels with this, we're going for more reforms.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

We're going to deepen the reforms and I tell you, we won't stop until Argentina is the freest country in the world. Furthermore, a recent work by an Argentinian economist named Juan Pablo Nicolini was presented at the central bank's monetary meetings, and he works at the Federal Reserve.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

We're going to deepen the reforms and I tell you, we won't stop until Argentina is the freest country in the world. Furthermore, a recent work by an Argentinian economist named Juan Pablo Nicolini was presented at the central bank's monetary meetings, and he works at the Federal Reserve.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

We're going to deepen the reforms and I tell you, we won't stop until Argentina is the freest country in the world. Furthermore, a recent work by an Argentinian economist named Juan Pablo Nicolini was presented at the central bank's monetary meetings, and he works at the Federal Reserve.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And it's interesting because he shows that only on the basis of what we have done in fiscal matters, it ensures that in the span of 10 years, we can double the GDP per capita, meaning that Argentina could grow at rates of 7% annually. which is very much, very much, and that has strong consequences in terms of improving quality of life, reducing poverty, reducing indigence.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And it's interesting because he shows that only on the basis of what we have done in fiscal matters, it ensures that in the span of 10 years, we can double the GDP per capita, meaning that Argentina could grow at rates of 7% annually. which is very much, very much, and that has strong consequences in terms of improving quality of life, reducing poverty, reducing indigence.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And it's interesting because he shows that only on the basis of what we have done in fiscal matters, it ensures that in the span of 10 years, we can double the GDP per capita, meaning that Argentina could grow at rates of 7% annually. which is very much, very much, and that has strong consequences in terms of improving quality of life, reducing poverty, reducing indigence.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

Therefore, if during the worst moment our image didn't suffer and we stayed strong in our ideas, now that everything is working much better, why should we change? On the contrary, we are ready to redouble the bet. to redouble our efforts because we've done things that no one else has done. I will give you an example.