Grapeshot
By Mitch Berg
OK, so something useful, non-toxic and non-authoritarian happened at Davos.
Javier Milei loads his carronades with rhetorical grapeshot and aims them at the decks:
We need one of him here.
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January 25th, 2024 at 7:57 am
He’s actually draining the swamp.
January 25th, 2024 at 8:49 am
Milei is the right man for the moment in Argentina, but economics is (supposed to be) a science, not a religion. Unfortunately, he leans more toward the later than the former.
That would make him a big “L” Libertarian.
There is no magic in life, only stuff that works until it doesn’t.
January 25th, 2024 at 9:48 am
Religion starts with the conclusion and searches for facts to fit the conclusion.
Science starts with the facts and searches for a conclusion to fit the facts.
Which one better describes US monetary policy in an era of “Milton Friedman’s not running the show anymore”?
Maybe the answer to bad religion isn’t science, it’s better religion. Sometimes you have to make a speech at Davos, sometimes you nail 95 theses to the door. Times change.
January 25th, 2024 at 11:30 am
Excellent point, Bigman, however there is a world of difference between living by Christian ethics and believing that God will save us from the barbarians.
A friend of my very religious mother fell under the spell of “the religion of prosperity” and invested his family’s life saving in the futures market believing that God would reward the devout with prosperity.
Apparently he was not a devout as he believed he was and quickly lost it all.
Some of the things that Milei says, smacks of that.
I suppose the difference is in believing in principles rather than magic, though sometimes it is easy to confuse the two.
January 25th, 2024 at 12:00 pm
“Do not be intimidated by parasites that live off the state……Do not surrender to the political class that only want to stay in power.”
One of the best speeches I have heard in a very long time.
January 25th, 2024 at 5:34 pm
I tend to agree with Milei’s economic positions, including many of his Austrian positions, and I’m praying for his success, but something that gives me a lot of unease is his apparent “shaes of Trump and Boris Johnson”, a bit of more showman than statesman. And hence I’m scared he’ll implode in much the same way.
January 27th, 2024 at 12:12 pm
More please!! Much much more.