Milei is pledging economic shock therapy, including shutting the central bank, ditching the peso and slashing spending. His challenges will be enormous: Empty coffers, a $44 billion debt program with the IMF, 150% inflation and more.
  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
    35·
    10 months ago

    I think the only silver lining will (hopefully) be a whiplash reaction once the authoritarian populists fuck things up enough.

    • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      It’s been a slow one in the UK, at least the US had a four-year load of nonsense to deal with before finding reality again.

      • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        For real - our electoral systems are utterly fucked, but sometimes yours makes ours look like a damn tea party