Shardikprime@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 19 hours agoJavier Milei becomes first world leader to meet Trump since election winwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down116
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minus-squaretakeda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down28·18 hours agoHe does look like Frodo on meth, lol, but still props that his economical plan that was perceived by many as crazy seem to be working so far.
minus-squareSgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoYou got the brains to use a bandaid for a bullet hole.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down2·18 hours agoAusterity does not work.
minus-squaretakeda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down9·13 hours agoWell … whatever you call it, the inflation did slow down to 2.7% No one before him was able to stop it.
minus-squareBakedCatboy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 hours agoWe did it Patrick! We saved bikini bottom slowed inflation!
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·10 hours agoYou do know that using inflation as a sole metric to determine how well an economy is doing is silly, yes?
minus-squareEatspancakes84@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·10 hours agoDon’t trust any number coming out of Argentina.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·13 hours agoMate it was 2.5% in 2022. It only jumped to 25% after he took office.
minus-squareShardikprime@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 hours agoAnd between 2022 and 2023 how much?
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 hour agoWent up a few percent to 8pct the month before he was elected, and flew up to 25.5% the month after he was elected. Before 2022, it hadn’t been above 6% in nearly a decade. This wasn’t a problem only Milei could solve that no one else had; this was a problem caused by Milei that didn’t exist before him.
minus-squareCheradenine@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·13 hours agoThat’s for last month. Let’s see how the yearly comes out.
minus-squareGissaMittJobb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·12 hours agoStopping your finger from bleeding by cutting off the entire arm is not a particularly good plan. Sure, inflation is down, but the absolute condition for the average argentinian is not strictly speaking great. It’s clear that some form of change to stop the runaway inflation was needed, but this was not the way to go
He does look like Frodo on meth, lol, but still props that his economical plan that was perceived by many as crazy seem to be working so far.
You got the brains to use a bandaid for a bullet hole.
Austerity does not work.
Well … whatever you call it, the inflation did slow down to 2.7%
No one before him was able to stop it.
We did it Patrick! We
saved bikini bottomslowed inflation!You do know that using inflation as a sole metric to determine how well an economy is doing is silly, yes?
Don’t trust any number coming out of Argentina.
Mate it was 2.5% in 2022. It only jumped to 25% after he took office.
And between 2022 and 2023 how much?
Went up a few percent to 8pct the month before he was elected, and flew up to 25.5% the month after he was elected.
Before 2022, it hadn’t been above 6% in nearly a decade.
This wasn’t a problem only Milei could solve that no one else had; this was a problem caused by Milei that didn’t exist before him.
That’s for last month. Let’s see how the yearly comes out.
Stopping your finger from bleeding by cutting off the entire arm is not a particularly good plan.
Sure, inflation is down, but the absolute condition for the average argentinian is not strictly speaking great.
It’s clear that some form of change to stop the runaway inflation was needed, but this was not the way to go