Milei's Argentina: The Price Populists Are Watching.
Do Populists Always Crash the Economy? Lessons from Argentina and Beyond Cambio, cambio. Under the blazing sun, the cries of the arbolitos echo along Florida Street in Buenos Aires, a familiar and almost poetic testament to a nation’s enduring economic anxieties. As Argentina grapples with the fallout from Javier Milei’s radical reforms, a crucial question hangs in the global political air: Do populist leaders inevitably crash their economies? It’s a question I’ve been covering for 15 years in political journalism, and frankly, the answer is rarely simple, but the stakes are always incredibly high. ...