An evening with Javier Milei, from Joel Bowman at joelbowman.substack.com:
Welcome to your front row seat for what we’ve been calling “The Greatest Political Experiment of Our Time.”
In Tuesday’s installment, we shared some “ringside” Notes from the AynRandCon 2024 event, held here in sunny Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Speaking as guest of honor to the ~150 unreconstructed freedom lovers in the room, your lost cause correspondent among them, was none other than the world’s first libertarian president, Javier Milei.
(If you missed Part I of our coverage, as filtered through loose translation, convenient paraphrasing and no small measure of poetic license, feel free to catch up here: Milei Up Close.)
In today’s sequel, we navigate the brackish waters between salty economics and potable political philosophy (or is it the other way around?), dodging Scylla and Charybdis alike as the ocean swirls beneath our dangling…modifiers.
When we left you, our gracious hostess, María Marty, had just broached the “S-word” (socialism), to which a visibly energized Milei responded…
“The ideas of freedom are stronger, stronger than the damned political caste. Because of this, I cannot stop. And I promise, I will not stop.”
Mercantilism (h/t-Dutch) lifts all boats.
Crony Capitalism sinks it all deeper than Atlantis.
Unanswerable independent entity as Greenspan said about the fed, controlling the money, is a recipe for disaster.
What the comrades forget is that we aren’t European states that favor centralized command and control under Dear Leader, we have tasted freedom.
Live Free or Don’t.