Everyone knows that Argentina’s president Javier Milei likes to brandish a chain saw as a symbol of his zeal to cut government, and so far he has been good to his word, cutting spending such that Argentina is running a surplus for the first time in decades, and cutting monthly inflation from around 25% to about 2.% percent.
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