Chainsaw out of gas? Milei's experiment wobbles

链锯没油了?米莱的实验摇摇欲坠

The Intelligence from The Economist

2025-10-03

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A telling local-election loss, persistent allegations of scandal and an American pledge to prop up the peso: much is chipping away at the experiment of Argentina's President Javier Milei. Long after the twin troubles of a pandemic and interest-rate rises, America's commercial-property sector might at last be recovering. And we return to an interview with Jane Goodall from our archives.
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  • The Economist.

  • Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

  • I'm Jason Palmer.

  • And I'm Rosie Bloor.

  • Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

  • In America,

  • the commercial property sector took a particularly hard knock during and after the pandemic.

  • But things are, at last, looking up a bit.

  • We look at what is likely to be a painfully slow recovery.

  • And one person, perhaps more than any other,

  • showed the world how very much primates are like humans.

  • Jane Goodall.

  • We return to an economist podcast's interview in the archive to reflect on a life of discovery and conservation.

  • But first...

  • When the Economist spoke to Argentina's President Javier Mele 10 months ago,

  • things looked pretty promising.

  • At that point, he was a year into his term.

  • He'd already taken a chainsaw to public spending and promised radical reform to deal with Argentina's ongoing economic problems.

  • Markets were responding well to the cuts and voters seemed to love his passionate style and anarchic streak.

  • Recently though, Malay's political fortunes have taken a turn.