by Dan Mitchell | Dec 10, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
My trip to Argentina last year motivated me to write Part I of this series, which focused on whether things might get better in that tragic country for the simple reason that they couldn’t possibly get any worse. In Part II of...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 26, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
Argentina has a very interesting, but also rather tragic, economic history. During first half of the 20th century, it was one of the world’s richest nations. But thanks to dirigiste economic policies (known locally as Peronism) starting after World War...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
After a libertarian candidate took first place in Argentina’s presidential primary back in August, I wrote that the runoff would be the most important election of 2023 (even more important than the fortunately failed referendum to...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 26, 2023 | Blogs, Economic Growth
Why is Argentina’s presidential election the most important political contest of 2023? For the simple reason that Argentina’s economy is the biggest tragedy of the past 100 years. Reversing the country’s decline is a major challenge....
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2023 | Blogs, Uncategorized
There was a political earthquake in Argentina when a hard-core libertarian got the most votes in the August nationwide presidential primary. Now everyone is paying close attention to Sunday’s general election. Will voters choose Javier Milei in hopes of...
