Poverty figures made a record jump of 11 points in the span of six months.
All they needed is to sacrifice the poor. Poverty is now at 53% in the country.
Sounds like a libertarian utopia!
Inflation was 200% last December, poverty would be 100% without drastic action.
After a 49% poverty left by the previous government. So a tick of 4% after that is almost nothing
People voted him for a reason
I mean that’s a 10% (almost) change. I’d consider that significant for a population.
How is the difference 10% between 49% to 53% ?
It’s an 8.16% increase, not 10% but still awful
Then I’d ask you to correct your comment, just to keep the information clean.
Beyond that, In the large scheme, it was bound to happen due to lifting the extremely subsidized price controls on food, rent, transportation, health and the heavily subsidized services.
It’s not pretty but it had to be done.
The country was literally printing money they don’t have to pay things they couldn’t afford
Like with all things you post, maybe you should check your sources better. I’m not the one who posted the 10% statement
And what you want to correct?
That is some serious progress.
This is terrifying news for the MMT crowd though as it’s pretty good proof their theory is bullshit.
In what way is Argentina inconsistent with MMT?
MMT argues that government printing money isn’t inflationary, and inflation can be controlled with taxes. Argentina had massive inflation while spending and taking on debt, and magically it’s gone down as measures to stop that spending were implemented.
It’s 2.7% a month, which puts the inflation at 32%.
And that’s still the lowest it’s been since 2021.
Is that right? I thought the general notion is that demand outpacing supply causes inflation. Doesnt printing money inherently increase demand? That’s why the Fed raised interest rates to fight inflation in the US, it slows money down by making things more expensive (in simplistic terms).
To MMT the printing of money is only inflationary when a country doesn’t have additional productivity. Thanks to digital products and services though l, production is nearly infinite. Others argue that all printing of money is inflationary.
The Fed only really has interest rates as a tool, so they raise it when inflation goes up. It can fight inflation by slowing lending, which thanks to fractional reserve banking is the primary source of money being printed/created.
Seems I need to read up more on the specifics of MMT. It feels like you keep contradicting yourself between your posts, but maybe I’m just missing something?
It is indeed, most of the country is happy with this development
If this success lasts a long time, it will almost certainly guarantee a dystopian future for all of us.
Argentina only has 32% inflation, what a success!
I know your being sarcastic but compared to what they were dealing with, 32% is actually a big success
Indeed, from 211% annual inflation to 107%? Astonishing success
Maybe they ran out of paper and can only print half the money
We are actually not printing any, fiscal responsability it’s the new moto
How?
