Javier Milei

It would have seemed impossible.

But it was not impossible for the world's best economy minister, Toto Caputo, and the best minister we've ever had in our history.

In only six months' time, we fixed the quasi-fiscal deficit, and we also stopped the money amount of the...

printing money.

Now we are looking at 24, 25, depending on whether you take the wholesale rates.

So everyone was predicting a hyper recession.

But Argentina reached a floor in April and then started to grow strongly.

The latest figures show the economy growing at 4.2%.

We have lifted 30% of the population out of poverty.

15 million people have been lifted out of poverty.

That the free market works, that free market capitalism works because those are the fundamentals I referred to yesterday in my Davos address.

Free enterprise capitalism is not only just and efficient, but it also lets the economy grow more.

When you design policies on the basis of ethical and moral values, the Western values, you thrive and you also enjoy social consensus because you're doing what is just, what is fair.

One of the things is that you can't possibly kill justice or the auto-efficiency, whether it be Pareto efficiency

or the efficiency of Machiavelli's political calculus.

This is why I said yesterday that Machiavelli is dead and we need to bury him because what we are proving

is that when you design policies on the basis of ethical and moral values, and when you do what is just, not what best suits the political rubbish people who work only on the basis of political speculation, that's how you gain support.

We got 41% of the vote, a 17% lead over Kirchnerism, which in a general presidential election would mean winning on the first round.

And the latest surveys show that 62% of Argentines

Well, actually, I came to understand the ideas of freedom as an economic growth specialist back in the years of 2013 to 2014. I could see that per capita GDP statistics over the last 2,000 years of the Christian era essentially looked like a hockey stick, indicating that per capita GDP remained almost constant until around 1800, after which it accelerated sharply.