Tag Archives: libertarianism
Chainsaw First
Having witnessed almost two years of Javier Milei’s “Chainsaw First” economic policies, during which the self-described anarcho-capitalist slashed the putrefied state from halo to culo, Argentine voters handed his La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party a thumping mandate in the midterm elections this past weekend. Continue reading
Capitalism: The Enemy of Poverty
Argentina tried it all. And what they got wrong, they tried, tried and tried again. Big State economics and Big Government politics introduced such a discombobulating thicket of malincentives, navigating one’s way through the labyrinthine maze of grift, corruption and public indoctrination was made perfectly impossible. Continue reading
How to Make a Government Disappear Completely
When we first began visiting Argentina, back in 2010, it was an certified economic basket case, well on the road to Caracas… if not Harare. Moreover, its political landscape was essentially one giant crime scene, such that you could have drawn a chalk outline around the entire barrio of Congreso and nary caught a pure heart or clean conscience in the undue process. Continue reading
