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Javier Milei

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
720 total appearances

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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.

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.

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

There's something that seems trivial, but there's what's called the single paper ballot. Argentina used to vote with huge ballots, which were very, above all, very costly, and that reform, it never passed. Let's say it wasn't done because it always harmed the ruling party. So everyone talked about going to the single paper ballot, but no one did it when they were in power.

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

There's something that seems trivial, but there's what's called the single paper ballot. Argentina used to vote with huge ballots, which were very, above all, very costly, and that reform, it never passed. Let's say it wasn't done because it always harmed the ruling party. So everyone talked about going to the single paper ballot, but no one did it when they were in power.

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

There's something that seems trivial, but there's what's called the single paper ballot. Argentina used to vote with huge ballots, which were very, above all, very costly, and that reform, it never passed. Let's say it wasn't done because it always harmed the ruling party. So everyone talked about going to the single paper ballot, but no one did it when they were in power.

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

They didn't want to implement it because they preferred to commit fraud or use some kind of trickery to avoid applying that rule that makes the election more competitive. Well, what's interesting, we sent that law and it was approved. What's more, now we are finishing with the open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries because it was a mechanism by which politics was also stealing.

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

They didn't want to implement it because they preferred to commit fraud or use some kind of trickery to avoid applying that rule that makes the election more competitive. Well, what's interesting, we sent that law and it was approved. What's more, now we are finishing with the open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries because it was a mechanism by which politics was also stealing.

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

They didn't want to implement it because they preferred to commit fraud or use some kind of trickery to avoid applying that rule that makes the election more competitive. Well, what's interesting, we sent that law and it was approved. What's more, now we are finishing with the open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries because it was a mechanism by which politics was also stealing.

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

We are eliminating the financing of political parties. If you look, we have reduced the fiscal pressure by 15 points to the Argentinians. We are restoring freedoms with a deep set of structural and regulatory reforms. That is, I think that... Any sensible liberal could perceive we are already delivering a wonderful government. In fact, it's the best government in the history of Argentina.

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

We are eliminating the financing of political parties. If you look, we have reduced the fiscal pressure by 15 points to the Argentinians. We are restoring freedoms with a deep set of structural and regulatory reforms. That is, I think that... Any sensible liberal could perceive we are already delivering a wonderful government. In fact, it's the best government in the history of Argentina.

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

We are eliminating the financing of political parties. If you look, we have reduced the fiscal pressure by 15 points to the Argentinians. We are restoring freedoms with a deep set of structural and regulatory reforms. That is, I think that... Any sensible liberal could perceive we are already delivering a wonderful government. In fact, it's the best government in the history of Argentina.

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

If the best had been that of Menem, we've already outpaced him.

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

If the best had been that of Menem, we've already outpaced him.

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

If the best had been that of Menem, we've already outpaced him.

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

That is, we, in fact, we started to do things right. Therefore, we did not create poverty. The poverty was an inherited poverty. The point is that what we did was to reveal it. I'll try to explain it with an example that I think clarifies what's happening in Argentina. Argentina was an economy that had a total price controls.

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

That is, we, in fact, we started to do things right. Therefore, we did not create poverty. The poverty was an inherited poverty. The point is that what we did was to reveal it. I'll try to explain it with an example that I think clarifies what's happening in Argentina. Argentina was an economy that had a total price controls.

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

That is, we, in fact, we started to do things right. Therefore, we did not create poverty. The poverty was an inherited poverty. The point is that what we did was to reveal it. I'll try to explain it with an example that I think clarifies what's happening in Argentina. Argentina was an economy that had a total price controls.

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

It had a fiscal deficit which was financed through money printing just for you to give you an idea. In the last year, Argentina financed 13 points of the gross domestic product with money printing. In other words, a real disaster. So, that situation provoked this artificially demand and puts pressure on prices. The issue is that price controls are applied additionally over the prices that

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

It had a fiscal deficit which was financed through money printing just for you to give you an idea. In the last year, Argentina financed 13 points of the gross domestic product with money printing. In other words, a real disaster. So, that situation provoked this artificially demand and puts pressure on prices. The issue is that price controls are applied additionally over the prices that

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

It had a fiscal deficit which was financed through money printing just for you to give you an idea. In the last year, Argentina financed 13 points of the gross domestic product with money printing. In other words, a real disaster. So, that situation provoked this artificially demand and puts pressure on prices. The issue is that price controls are applied additionally over the prices that