Tag: Argentina

Rebirth of Liberty

A conference cosponsored by the Cato Institute and Libertad y Progreso titled “The Rebirth of Liberty in Argentina and Beyond” concluded a few hours ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The last two events on Wednesday evening were streamed live on X: a conversation between Johan Norberg and Elon Musk, followed by concluding remarks by Javier Milei.

Norberg and Musk conversed for nearly half an hour, in English of course. After that Milei spoke in his native Spanish. Perhaps a dubbed version of his remarks will be available later. Continue reading “Rebirth of Liberty”

“The Market is Ourselves”

Javier Milei at the Hoover Institution

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.”

I recalled that T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) quote on watching a recording of the talk Argentine President Javier Milei gave at the Hoover Institution in Stanford University on May 29th. He’s a dangerous man. He’s making his dream possible.

Argentina has been tremendously unlucky for over a century. It appears that its luck may be changing.

At the start of the 20th century, it was one of the wealthiest nations in the world, with a high standard of living comparable to many European countries. Then things went south. By 2001-2002, things had gone really bad. Continue reading ““The Market is Ourselves””