Argentina prosecutes presidential front-runner Javier Milei for teaching basic economics

Published October 14, 2023 8:28pm ET



With inflation accelerating to 138% annually in Argentina, or prices more than doubling multiple times per year, classical monetarist Javier Milei is slated to win the South American nation’s presidency thanks to his radical promise to replace its peso with the United States dollar. The ruling regime, correctly terrified that Milei will end Argentina’s ability to fund its Peronist policies at the expense of its citizens’s savings, has launched an eleventh-hour attack on Milei, prosecuting the economist for the crime of telling the truth.

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