Milei's meeting with Trump and Elon this week will be interesting. Milei's is the classical/libertarian and correct take on tariffs, outside war-time - I do not resile from my comments on Trump's tariffs having a justification. So he an Trump will not be agreeing, and Xavier probably has a stronger 'personality' than Trump: so it's an interesting arm wrestle. I suspect Elon is not such a purist on economics, he just wants to building rockets and has been happy to have govt subsidise that (good on him).
Anyway; interesting. I have a suspicion the point of the meeting will be for Elon and Xavier to compare notes on taking a chainsaw to the bureaucracy: the latter has a lot of experience in that.
Golden times coming for the Americas (once Trudeau is ousted next year).
@Mark H: "Resile" from your comments? You stopped even bothering to defend them. And no wonder. And as a subsidy king, Elon isn't any kind of purist – except when it comes to hoovering up grants. (And you say "good on him" for that? You've now entirely lost a grip.) Any hope of anything coming from a meetign between these three would be entirely one-sided.
PS: The only "golden times" to hope for would be if Orange Man's gaggle of cronies *fails* to get around to anything in their platform. But if they do, then expelling millions of would-be Americans and impoverishing everyone else would be far from gold. More like lead.
Milei gave Argentina's gold reserve away. He sent the gold out of the country to an undisclosed location where it is under the control of undisclosed parties. Those parties are not the Argentinian people and not the Argentinian government. Quitting the gold reserves sure seems a sterling thing for a classical libertarian to do. No, there are not golden times coming for Argentina. Guess what political movement will be blamed when the Argentine wake up and realise the gold was rehypothecated? Rehypo probably already happened right the very day the gold was shipped out. It's gone already.
The money has a saying which goes like this. If you don't have it, then you don't own it.
This guy is not a classical libertarian. He's just like the rest. He be owned.
Sorry Mark, continuing on from above, I do not think you have got Milei worked out right, even though you are on the right track about the reason President Trump is going for tariffs. A trade war is already in play. President will need to respond to it firmly and very soon. Negotiations are not going to be easy since the USA is in a position of weakness internationally.
Do you understand, Peter, your purist, perfect world is never going to happen, but you'll destroy what is left sitting haranguing and virtue signalling from the sidelines?
@MarkH: Righto, well you just keep right on compromising then. Meanwhile, I'll keep haranguing from whatever position is left to me. Milei at least shows it's not always in vain. NB: I do note too that there's yet another point there to which you've failed to respond. I wonder why.
"your perfect purist world is never going to happen"
It's fine to support a politician who's a mixture of good and some bad, if the good outweighs the bad and he's moving things generally in the right direction. But you're supporting someone who in my estimation is predominantly bad and moving things in the wrong direction.
We can disagree about the proportions of good and bad too, and still have a healthy debate. The big problem though, and what kills any meaningful discussion is your unwillingness to recognise the bad, or even respond coherently to facts pointing out the bad - presumably because you're so emotionally invested in your rabid support for the man.
And even if Peter's "perfect purist world" is never going to happen, advocating for it at least moves it in the right direction. Compromising and appeasing it's opposite moves things in the wrong direction.
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Milei's meeting with Trump and Elon this week will be interesting. Milei's is the classical/libertarian and correct take on tariffs, outside war-time - I do not resile from my comments on Trump's tariffs having a justification. So he an Trump will not be agreeing, and Xavier probably has a stronger 'personality' than Trump: so it's an interesting arm wrestle. I suspect Elon is not such a purist on economics, he just wants to building rockets and has been happy to have govt subsidise that (good on him).
Anyway; interesting. I have a suspicion the point of the meeting will be for Elon and Xavier to compare notes on taking a chainsaw to the bureaucracy: the latter has a lot of experience in that.
Golden times coming for the Americas (once Trudeau is ousted next year).
@Mark H: "Resile" from your comments? You stopped even bothering to defend them. And no wonder.
And as a subsidy king, Elon isn't any kind of purist – except when it comes to hoovering up grants. (And you say "good on him" for that? You've now entirely lost a grip.)
Any hope of anything coming from a meetign between these three would be entirely one-sided.
PS: The only "golden times" to hope for would be if Orange Man's gaggle of cronies *fails* to get around to anything in their platform. But if they do, then expelling millions of would-be Americans and impoverishing everyone else would be far from gold. More like lead.
Milei gave Argentina's gold reserve away. He sent the gold out of the country to an undisclosed location where it is under the control of undisclosed parties. Those parties are not the Argentinian people and not the Argentinian government. Quitting the gold reserves sure seems a sterling thing for a classical libertarian to do. No, there are not golden times coming for Argentina. Guess what political movement will be blamed when the Argentine wake up and realise the gold was rehypothecated? Rehypo probably already happened right the very day the gold was shipped out. It's gone already.
The money has a saying which goes like this. If you don't have it, then you don't own it.
This guy is not a classical libertarian. He's just like the rest. He be owned.
Sorry Mark, continuing on from above, I do not think you have got Milei worked out right, even though you are on the right track about the reason President Trump is going for tariffs. A trade war is already in play. President will need to respond to it firmly and very soon. Negotiations are not going to be easy since the USA is in a position of weakness internationally.
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Do you understand, Peter, your purist, perfect world is never going to happen, but you'll destroy what is left sitting haranguing and virtue signalling from the sidelines?
@MarkH: Righto, well you just keep right on compromising then. Meanwhile, I'll keep haranguing from whatever position is left to me. Milei at least shows it's not always in vain. NB: I do note too that there's yet another point there to which you've failed to respond. I wonder why.
Actually, Elon derangement syndrome, probably the greatest innovative mind since Edison, or ever, is incomprehensible to me.
Trump is putting together a good team. Of the available options, he is just what America and the world needs.
So you blog is going to become on big long anti-Trump rant. Right. Have fun.
"your perfect purist world is never going to happen"
It's fine to support a politician who's a mixture of good and some bad, if the good outweighs the bad and he's moving things generally in the right direction. But you're supporting someone who in my estimation is predominantly bad and moving things in the wrong direction.
We can disagree about the proportions of good and bad too, and still have a healthy debate. The big problem though, and what kills any meaningful discussion is your unwillingness to recognise the bad, or even respond coherently to facts pointing out the bad - presumably because you're so emotionally invested in your rabid support for the man.
And even if Peter's "perfect purist world" is never going to happen, advocating for it at least moves it in the right direction. Compromising and appeasing it's opposite moves things in the wrong direction.
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