ECONOMICS: 108 Economists were wrong because they saw Milei’s Results through their politics as opposed to their science

Thursday, February 27, 2025

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-did-108-economists-predict-mileis-results-exactly-wrong/

How Did 108 Economists Predict Milei’s Results Exactly Wrong?

  • Leading lights on the left said Milei’s free market reforms would be disastrous. Instead, they’ve been hailed as a miracle.

Jon Miltimore
February 15, 2025

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“Their understanding of how markets work and of how governments work is superficial,” writes Henderson. “I wonder if any of them, seeing the apparent success of Milei’s policies, are questioning their prior views. We can always hope.”

Indeed we can. But for now, it’s not unfair to assume from their silence that they’ve learned little from Argentina’s economic progress. 

As President Donald Trump begins his own second term as president, there’s much he can learn from Milei’s first year in office. 

This includes ignoring economists who claim that cutting government spending, regulations, and bureaucracy will result in economic devastation. And perhaps most importantly, the danger of using government printing presses to avoid making difficult budget decisions.

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Jonathan Miltimore is Senior Editor at AIER. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, and the Star Tribune. He is a contributor at the Washington Examiner and has had bylines in Fox News, Newsweek, National Review, the Epoch Times, Real Clear Politics, the Washington Times, and other media.

Prior to joining AIER, Jon served in editorial roles at the History Channel magazine and the Foundation for Economic Education. He also served in the Bush Administration as an intern in the Department of Speechwriting. When he is not working, Jon enjoys reading, watching movies, and spending time with his wife and three children. He also coaches youth football, baseball, and wrestling.

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All the little L libertarians knew that, if allowed, Milei’s free market reforms would radically change the incentive structure in that socialist economy.  Just like that, freeing people’s competitive skills and ability from the chains of a Welfare State would stun all the pessimists.  And it did.

Inflation from 300% to 2.4%. GDP of 5%. 

I guess that the people of any country would want stats like that.  Now it’s time to get the leadership that will give it to them.

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HEALTH: Is the risk of “died suddenly” the price for trusting COVID-19 “vaccines”?

Saturday, December 23, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/pro-vaccine-journalist-who-called-punishment-refusing-jab-dies-suddenly

Pro-Vaccine Journalist Who Called for Punishment For Refusing Jab Dies Suddenly
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Dec 16, 2023 – 06:30 PM
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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A Canadian journalist who took strong positions in support of COVID-19 vaccines—including calling for vaccine passports and terminating police officers who refused the jab—has died suddenly.

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Deep into the Big Pharma US Treasury raid, we learned that the word “vaccine” was redefined to include a bio-engineered weapons program.

Everyone, who disagreed, was labeled as “anti-vax”.  Despite that no one was refusing to take the polio (real) “vaccine”.  Nor were children not being given some of the OLD Traditional shots like DPT and measles.  And old {synonym for multiple instances of  flatulence} like me were taking Pneumonia and Shingle vaxes.  

No, the resistance was to these newfangled RNA “jabs” that were suspect.

Some of the suspicions were that politicians and bureaucrats, celebrities, and Big Executives were getting the distilled water or not getting jabbed at all.

(Remember Joe Biden’s shot on TV that was incorrectly administered?)

Don’t believe everything you hear and some of what you see.

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GOVERNACIDE: Hospitals’ and doctors’ greed kills with lucrative Covid protocols

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hospital-holocaust-woman-escapes-covid-19-hospital-treatment-protocols-says-others-not-so-lucky_4728030.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=t5-cc&utm_medium=email

Woman Escapes COVID-19 Hospital Treatment Protocols, Says Others Not So Lucky
By Matt McGregor
September 15, 2022 Updated: September 15, 2022

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Over a week after Gail Seiler’s physician had given her a terminal diagnosis, her husband, Brad Seiler, wheeled her out of the back door of the hospital where she had been admitted for COVID-19 on Dec. 3, 2021.

“I’m so sorry, Mrs. Seiler, but you are going to die,” she recalled her physician telling her on Dec. 5.

On Dec. 15, despite resistance from hospital staff, Brad extracted Seiler from Medical City Plano hospital in Plano, Texas, where the couple lives.

Seiler is one of the few patients who has lived to tell her story about what she said she witnessed on the inside with COVID-19 hospital treatment protocols.

“It became clear to me that people are not dying in hospitals from COVID. They are dying from these protocols,” Seiler told The Epoch Times.

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If you read this, maybe you will wonder like I do, if the financial reimbursement is the reason that the doctor / hospital complex killed people with a defective treatment protocol.

I never EVER want to go to the hospital.  

I hope that every death is investigated like they do on the TV crime shows, and the guilty are sent to prison and their licenses revoked.

That trope about the witch doctor gets killed if his patient dies sounds like a good rule to adopt.

I doubt we will ever get the truth.

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

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IPHONE: Mike Lindell is an object lesson in backup and recovery

Thursday, September 15, 2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-got-bad-news-you-mike-lindell-speaks-out-after-fbi-seizes-phone

“I Got Bad News For You”: Mike Lindell Speaks Out After FBI Seizes Phone
by Tyler Durden — Thursday, Sep 15, 2022 – 11:20 AM
Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was picking up food at a fast food chain drive-through when three cars driven by federal agents blocked him.

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“Well, I got bad news for you: we are going to take your cell phone,” Lindell remembered the agents saying.

“No you are not, I’d rather be arrested, you are not going to get my phone,” he replied. Since he doesn’t have a computer, he said his phone was an essential device that he leans on to run his five businesses.

“They want people to be scared to talk to Mike Lindell,” Lindell, who relented and handed over his phone after consulting his lawyer, told The Epoch Times on Wednesday.

“You might get your phone taken at a drive-thru restaurant, you might get your door bashed in by the FBI,” he said, noting the string of FBI subpoenas for allies of former President Donald Trump reported in recent weeks.

While Lindell initially thought the FBI was interested in him as part of the House probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, the agents told him they had two separate cases in which he is named.

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The FBI turned down Lindell’s request to back up his phone. “That was something that really upset me,” he said, adding that his last phone backup was from a couple of weeks earlier.

But the recent FBI actions, he said, won’t dissuade him from his advocacy efforts.

“The government weaponized the FBI, trying to scare me, trying to scare other people, but it didn’t change a thing,” he said. “This is Gestapo in Nazi Germany. This is what we’re up against.”

“It didn’t rattle me,” he added. “I’m not going to unsee what I’ve seen.”

Regarding his phone, Lindell is confident that the FBI will realize “there’s nothing in here.”

“I do all things by calls, I rarely text, and I never email,” he said. “So whatever they’re looking for, they’re going to be on a wild goose chase.”

Lindell’s lawyer is working to get his client’s phone back, and meanwhile, Lindell says he has already moved on.

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“his last phone backup was from a couple of weeks earlier.”

Maybe I should apply for a job as his IT guru.  If that phone is his “lifeline”, then he should have a hot back up.

Didn’t say if it was an iPhone.  If it was he could have a hot backup to iCloud.  

I don’t do anything important and I have a backup phone and a backup computer.

Remember “2 is 1; 1 is none! redundant capability; not redundant gear!”

There’s no excuse for only one back up that weeks old.

Argh!

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RANT: Let the research begin on what was on the laptop,

Thursday, March 31, 2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/matt-gaetz-enters-hunter-biden-laptop-data-congressional-record

Matt Gaetz Enters Hunter Biden Laptop Data Into Congressional Record
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, MAR 30, 2022 – 04:20 PM
Authored by Ken Silva via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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“I seek unanimous consent to enter into the record on this committee the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, which I am in possession of.”

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I look forward to the “muckrakers” exposing all the corruption to the light of day.

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