Javier Milei
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426 appearances
7 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Jan
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Notice that these two points, which were the main concerns, they were the biggest concerns of Argentinians. when we took office are now in fifth and sixth place. Today, the problem for Argentinians is corruption, whether there is unemployment, if there is poverty, but they don't mention inflation and insecurity anymore.
And besides, a third point that I made clear was that I would align with the United States and Israel internationally. And, you know, at my campaign rallies, there would be groups that would come along with flags of Israel So it's clear that our international policy approach was always very clear.
And this is something I state during my speeches when I talk about the values of the West and the civilization of the West. In fact, yesterday, And even more so today. During my speeches, I talked about how the different Greek groups or tribes go together to confront the Persians. That is to say, it seemed that from that time 500 years before Christ until today, that struggle continues, right?
But well, so, of course. We're all in. We are betting on the United States becoming once again a leader in the West. We needed someone to come back to make America great again. And that as part of that process, being a commercial ally is also a great idea. So we would really like to move forward and deepen our trade ties. And our investment ties, you know?
And, well, we would also like to be part of the NATO as well.
Let's say I... If you review all my statements, I talk about currency competition. I'm not strictly talking about dollarization. I'm talking about currency competition and eliminating the central bank. If people later decide to embrace the dollar, that is their choice. Ultimately, in the model I propose, what happens is the formation of a currency basket tailored to the needs of individuals.
But... I won't avoid the discussion. Today there is currency competition. If, for instance, today in Argentina you want to make transactions in any currency, you can do it, and it's allowed. Today there is currency competition. The other thing we talk about is the concept of, let's suppose we were discussing dollarization, we talk about endogenous dollarization.
The first point is that you need to clean up the central bank. we had to deal with the issue of the CIRA, that is the central bank's commercial debt, which was $50 billion. We still have to resolve the dividend problem of $10 billion. And in the meantime, we did a write-off and cleaned up the central bank's balance sheet by $45 billion.
So you can't just close the central bank if it is bankrupt because you need to redeem the whole central bank debt, which is about the issuing of money and the interest bearing liabilities. So once we finished with the interest bearing liabilities, it'll leave us with the monetary base.
Therefore, today we have a regime where the amount of money is fixed, the monetary base is not growing, and as demand for money increases since people can use dollars, they don't need to go and sell the dollars and make the peso appreciate, but they can do transactions in dollars. So as the economy grows, you will have a greater share of dollars relative to pesos.
And at some point, the amount of pesos compared to the dollars will be so huge relatively that closing down the central bank will be done easily, which means this is working. Of course, if you were to give me the money right now, I would go ahead and dollarize. I'd have no problem with that.
For example, I did have a proposal for this and this could have worked because the bonds, because the largest creditor of the Argentine treasury is the central bank. But central bank bond were trading at 20 cents. If I had sold those bonds at 20 cents and nowadays they are trading between 60 and 70 with the whole bunch of Neanderthals that are the opposition.
who besides being ignorant in economics, also have bad intentions, I would be in jail today.
The way I see it, I have seen Maradona play, all right? I saw Maradona play in the past. I used to watch him and I saw him during his last year at Argentino Juniors before Boca Juniors in the year 1980 and I saw him in 81. Playing for Boca, I saw him play in the youth selection in Japan in 1979. I truly have immensely enjoyed the talent of Maradona.
But without a doubt, the best soccer player of all time, not just from Argentina, of all time, even better than Pelé, is Messi, of course. There is an article which is quite old already now, titled Messi is Impossible. And it looks at all of the positions a soccer player plays in. That is all positions a soccer player can play in from midfield forward, okay?
And the most incredible thing is that Messi is the best in each of those positions. You can be the best in one or two positions. You see, Cristiano Ronaldo, for example, was very good in two areas of the game. So much so that he was almost like Messi, but he didn't take part in the rest. However, Messi is the best one in all respects, but at that time, of course.
Nowadays, you know, he is an older player, right? And... And I'm not sure whether he can still keep that performance on all fronts. But honestly, I have never in my life seen a player like Messi. I have never seen no one like him. For real. If you look at the number of goals he scored... I correct that, considering the goal average in the days of Pelé.
Compared to Messi's golden era and his career now, the number of equivalent goals is much greater than that of Pelé. Therefore, without a doubt, Messi is the greatest soccer player of all time. Of all time, no one compares to him.
Messi does things that seem technically impossible. They seem physically impossible. The moves he makes don't respect human logic. It's like watching Usain Bolt run. It doesn't feel possible. He moves in a way that doesn't respect human logic.
Oh, yes. I do remember that very well. We watched it in the home of my godfather and saw how he did his gambit and dodged the team, the England team, that was truly... It was absolutely... Absolutely indescribable. There's no way to put it into words. It's as if I asked you to describe for me the love you have for your partner. You can't do that, right? I mean, it's something wonderful.
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