In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman laud the election of libertarian economist Javier Milei in Argentina and parse the results of the federal case involving the online advertising platform Backpage. 0:31—Javier Milei elected president of Argentina 16:25—Verdicts in the Backpage trial 36:43—Weekly Listener Question 46:44—Sam […]
Javier Milei, the self-described classical liberal and anarcho-capitalist who won Argentina’s presidential election on Sunday, campaigned with a brash message of slashing government programs, cutting taxes, and privatizing state-owned enterprises. Whether he’ll be able to accomplish any or all of that prodigious list of economic reforms—or his even bigger promise to fix Argentina’s busted monetary […]
A self-described libertarian just won a presidency. In Argentina, Javier Milei—who proudly describes himself as a classical liberal and an anarcho-capitalist, ran on a libertarian platform, and named his pack of dogs after various free market economists—just beat Sergio Massa, a Peronist, to become president. In turn, Milei has been described as a “populist” (by […]