{"id":38835,"date":"2025-01-25T05:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=38835"},"modified":"2025-01-25T05:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:14:36","slug":"milei-the-madman-is-back-in-davos-after-racking-up-victories-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=38835","title":{"rendered":"Milei \u2018The Madman\u2019 Is Back in Davos After Racking Up Victories in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/pwhqc.XECKVi4LkoQ.Yzqw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU5Mw--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/bloomberg_markets_842\/a1a098521c39276c2529518996791b9d\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"232\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">(Bloomberg) &#8212; Javier Milei, Argentina\u2019s brash, libertarian president, is (mostly) OK with the nickname pundits have given him: \u201cel loco,\u201d or \u201cthe madman.\u201dMost Read from BloombergTexas HOA Charged With Discrimination for Banning Section 8 RentersHow Sanctuary Cities Are Preparing for Another Showdown With TrumpWhat LA\u2019s Fires Mean for the City\u2019s Housing ShortageDeadly Landslide of Garbage Displays Uganda&#8217;s Missed OpportunityNY\u2019s Hochul Calls for Law Banning Cell Phone Use in SchoolsBut he\u2019s quic<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/milei-madman-back-davos-racking-060001503.html\">Milei \u2018The Madman\u2019 Is Back in Davos After Racking Up Victories in Argentina<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The monthly inflation rate has plunged to below 3% from more than 20% when he made his Davos debut a year ago; the government posted its first annual budget surplus since 2009; and the economy has begun to pull out of the recession it fell into when Milei devalued the peso and imposed harsh budget cuts two days after taking office in late 2023.<br>&#8230;<br>\u201cA year in, Milei\u2019s shock therapy has proven much more successful than I initially expected,\u201d Ian Bremmer, founder of the Eurasia Group, said in an interview by email. During the election, Bremmer had predicted Milei would bring \u201cmore economic collapse imminently.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Javier Milei, Argentina\u2019s brash, libertarian president, is (mostly) OK with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[386,18,266],"class_list":["post-38835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-argentina","tag-economics","tag-maybe-good","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38837,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38835\/revisions\/38837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}