Argentina’s Javier Milei has made a horrible mistake

One is tempted to say that a Hayekian free market liberation of Argentina after eternal misrule by the Peronist casta would also be a good idea, but that is not what Javier Milei is actually delivering.

A year after his landslide victory, Milei is still not letting market forces set the peso exchange rate, and it now looks as if his crawling dollar peg will continue into the middle of next year. 

The peso is as overvalued today as it has ever been in Argentine history, or very close. 

This has suppressed inflation temporarily to a monthly rate of 2.4pc – so has economic contraction – but has in the process strangled the traded sectors of the textile, shoe and toy industries.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph 13 December 2024

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/13/argentinas-javier-milei-has-made-a-horrible-mistake/


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