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Re:Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders... by zone411 on Monday February 17, 2025 @05:41AM (#43077400)
You meant utilization not capacity. Your other points are similarly confused.

Argentinians disagree.

"The percentage of Argentines who say their standard of living is getting better (53%) has inched above the majority level for the first time since 2015." https://news.gallup.com/poll/654089/javier-milei-argentina-c...

"Argentina's monthly inflation rate dropped to 2.2% in January, its lowest since mid-2020 after libertarian President Javier Milei took office just over a year ago ushering in austerity measures that have helped stabilize the embattled economy." https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-inflation-r...

Re:Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders... by xinayder on Monday February 17, 2025 @07:59AM (#43078508)
Dropped to 2.2% after a 120% inflation in the past years?

Compared to before Milei, costs are completely high and people who could live with their (now considered low) income are barely surviving.

You can say he's fixing it, but at the same time pretty much driving almost the whole population into poverty. And then the next president will have to deal with it and probably undo whatever Milei did. It's unsustainable.

Re:Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders... by Izikiel43 on Monday February 17, 2025 @09:02AM (#43079102)
Hey, how much was inflation in 2023 when Milei didn't rule?

> 211.4%

https://apnews.com/article/argentina-inflation-december-annu...

2024?

> 117%

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/indec-reveals-argent...

Has inflation been high over at least 2 years?

Yes.

Has it gone done by almost half?

Yes.

According to private economists/universities, poverty is around 37%, which is even lower than we he started to rule, we will have to wait for official statistics in March I believe.

Re:Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders... by Daishiman on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:45PM (#43081468)
I’m sorry but opinion polls I this country are worth the paper they’re written on. Menem’s political program wrecked the Argentinian economy the same way this program is doing and the man got reelected with some of the highest increases in poverty during that period.

The important thing is that outsiders are falsely believing that the problem with this country is high inflation instead of low economic productivity. The country has dealt with high inflation for a century and during that time has the highest standard of living of Latin America and a solid middle class.

What Milei is doing is literally regressing in the public infrastructure needed to develop industry while keeping structural costs artificially high. Mark my words: very little will have been accomplished inflation wise but industrial activity will drop permanently as factories that cannot handle high costs leave.