A Chainsaw to the Economy?

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Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei describes himself as an anarcho- capitalist and says he will take a chainsaw to the Argentine government. He has campaigned that he will dollarize the economy and shut down the central bank. What does this mean and could it work?

Argentina mostly exports agricultural commodities but used to be one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Decades of economic mismanagement have destroyed the economy and created a web of artificial price and exchange rate controls that have produced huge distortions.

Milei is described as a libertarian economist whose ideological heroes are Milton Friedman, Robert Lucas, Murray Rothbard and Margaret Thatcher.

Milei campaigned on promises of taking a chainsaw to the state, closing down the central bank and replacing the peso with the US dollar. But he has made a dramatic shift towards moderation since winning the election.

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Corrections:
1) Unfortunately, towards the end of the video I unintentionally referred to Milei as Macri a few times. The subtitles contain the correct names. Apologies for my terrible pronunciation too.
2) A number of viewers are claiming that the photo of Margaret Thatcher was actually Queen Elizabeth. I have double checked this and it was definitely Margaret Thatcher. Queen Elizabeth looked like this: