Milei Says Argentina Heading for ‘Shock’ Fiscal Therapy in 2024

  • Milei promises to balance 2024 budget to exterminate inflation
  • He says outgoing government ‘planted’ seeds of hyperinflation
Javier Milei meets with Alberto Fernandez at the Olivos residence on Nov. 21.Source: Casa Rosada
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President-elect Javier Milei promised economic shock therapy to balance Argentina’s budget next year in an effort to avoid hyperinflation.

Fresh off his landslide election win, Milei said Tuesday evening he will drastically cut government spending because “there’s no money.” Failure to do so would further boost consumer prices that are already soaring more than 140% a year, their fastest pace since the South American nation was exiting its last bout of hyperinflation in the early 1990s.