Argentina foibles (inflation, currency and potential anarcho-capitalist experiments)

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Argentina posts six months of fiscal, financial surpluses​

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina posted primary fiscal and financial surpluses in June, the economy ministry said on Tuesday, showing the fruits of a drastic austerity package rolled out by libertarian President Javier Milei, who took office in December.

Both the fiscal and financial balances are the sixth consecutive monthly surpluses, and June's financial surplus - which includes interest payments by the government - is the first time since 2008 that six in a row have been recorded, the ministry added.

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The mystery of Argentina’s gold: Milei admits that it was transferred abroad, without specifying the quantities or destination​

Buenos Aires - JUL 28, 2024 - 00:05 EDT

Argentina’s reserves, held by its Central Bank, include almost two million troy ounces of gold, valued at about $4.5 billion. But lately, there’s a question that’s on everybody’s lips: where is it? Was it taken out of the country? Did some of it remain within Argentina, while the rest was transferred abroad? Well, the official information only offers partial answers.

The administration of far-right President Javier Milei admitted to the recent transfer of gold abroad, but didn’t specify quantities, the destination, or the purpose for this measure. Nor did the Central Bank provide any details. In a scenario of financial instability — and with the government facing the need to accumulate reserves — the decision generated suspicions and speculation. There are also fears that the gold could possibly be seized, due to long-standing legal cases that have been filed against Argentina by foreign creditors.

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That seems odd. Given Milei's Austrian school economic/monetary policy, what goal is being achieved by expatriating their gold reserves?
 
They sent it to a neutral country so it cannot be seized or confiscated because Argentina has defaulted so many times on debt payment. My WAG is they sent it to Singapore.
 

Is Milei’s Radical Plan to Save Argentina Working?​

Aug 16, 2024 #Argentina #Milei #News

After eight months in office, Argentine President Javier Milei has slashed spending on social security, public wages and consumer subsidies. His austerity measures have won praise from former US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Milei also remains largely popular at home, with approval ratings above 50%. But painful reforms can only stay popular for so long. To win midterm elections next year and hang on to power, Milei must lift a cobweb of capital controls to restart the slumping economy without fanning inflation further.


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00:00 Introduction
01:13 Milei’s rise
02:26 Cuts to public spending
05:23 Popularity in Argentina
06:28 Impact of austerity measures
08:10 Milei’s future
 

Inflation: Can President Javier Milei SAVE Argentina from Inflation⁉️🤔

Aug 23, 2024


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He may not be perfect but he's on the right path. People seem willing to suffer to get to the other side. Unlike things in the US. We have a huge population of welfare recipients who demand more and more. Not to mention the "refugee and immigration" problem.
 

The mystery of Argentina’s gold: Milei admits that it was transferred abroad, without specifying the quantities or destination​

Buenos Aires - JUL 28, 2024 - 00:05 EDT

Argentina’s reserves, held by its Central Bank, include almost two million troy ounces of gold, valued at about $4.5 billion. But lately, there’s a question that’s on everybody’s lips: where is it? Was it taken out of the country? Did some of it remain within Argentina, while the rest was transferred abroad? Well, the official information only offers partial answers.

The administration of far-right President Javier Milei admitted to the recent transfer of gold abroad, but didn’t specify quantities, the destination, or the purpose for this measure. Nor did the Central Bank provide any details. In a scenario of financial instability — and with the government facing the need to accumulate reserves — the decision generated suspicions and speculation. There are also fears that the gold could possibly be seized, due to long-standing legal cases that have been filed against Argentina by foreign creditors.

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Aaaand... its GONE: President Milei sends TONS of Argentina sovereign Gold to UK​

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Aaaand... its GONE: President Milei sends TONS of Argentina sovereign Gold to UK​

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I don't understand this move. The only place that gold should have been sent is to the mint to mint coins for the people to use.
 
It's pretty simple. He's just another MotherWEF'r plant. Confiscated the countries gold and gave it to London to probably help them keep their game going just a bit longer.
 
There are few places in all of Argentina as poor as La Rioja, a sleepy, desolate province carved out of the red-clay highlands that form the country’s northwestern border with Chile.

And it is here, in La Rioja, that the financial toll of President Javier Milei’s shock economic therapy — a high-stakes bid to tame chronic inflation — can best be observed. When Milei slashed the monthly cash transfers from the federal government to the provinces, La Rioja went broke. In February, it fell into default. And soon the local economy had sunk into a deep recession.

So the governor, an outspoken critic of Milei by the name of Ricardo Quintela, dialed up a radical plan of his own. He created the province’s own currency, the chacho, had sheets of it printed up and started doling it out in wads of 50,000 to all government employees. It was a little bonus payment, Quintela said, to help people buy more of the essentials they’d been skimping on. Shop owners weren’t outright forced, but rather strongly encouraged, to accept chachos just like they would pesos. One chacho equals one peso.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth...d-to-offset-milei-s-shock-therapy/ar-AA1pUBKv
 
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2/3 of the province are gov employees. No wonder they are broke.
 
 

 
Argentine President Javier Milei announced plans to shut down the country's tax collection agency, a bold step in his ongoing effort to slash government spending and bureaucracy.

On Monday, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni confirmed that the Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP), Argentina's tax bureau, will "cease to exist." It will be replaced by a newly formed agency, the Agencia de Recaudación y Control Aduanero (ARCA), which will assume some of its functions.

"Throughout its existence, this agency has functioned as a political cash box and, as we all know, many Argentines have been subjected to absolutely immoral persecutions," Adorni's statement reads. "No State bureaucrat should be delegated the power to tell an Argentinean what to do with his property."

The closure of AFIP is framed as "essential to dismantle the unnecessary bureaucracy that has hindered the economic and commercial freedom of Argentines." ARCA, the new agency, will embody a "simple, more efficient, less costly, and less bureaucratic" approach to tax collection and customs control.

ARCA "aims to reduce the State, eliminate unnecessary positions, professionalize the agency, dismantle corrupt networks, and improve the efficiency of revenue collection and customs control by removing privileges of the past and optimizing public management," the statement continues.
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Prior to Milei, Argentina was molding their tax regime after the IRS here in the USA.
 
They need to eliminate income tax and create a flat tax on goods and services.
 
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