Argentina's Mileise: Construction, manufacturing collapse amid plummeting demand

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2. Sad - but true

Argentina's elites aren't as interested in making money, as they are (in their words) in "remaking society."

Their goal is to live like gods among ants - in an impoverished society of people too poor, confused, and just plain exhausted to organize and/or react in any real way (or even vote intelligently).

And I don't need to tell you - that as much as they disdain that pill-popping loon (with good reason), Republican billionaires are keeping an eye on Milei and his "scorched earth" experiment.

Not to see if it can succeed (they know it can't - least of all in an already-vulnerable economy like Argentina's) - but to see how much the public will put up with before they riot en masse.

As you know, they loved the feeling they got during the 2008 Bush calamity and 2020 pandemic panic - when they made trillions selling short while millions lost everything.

And to paraphrase Barry Manilow, they're trying to get that feeling again.