Javier Milei, Argentina's self-proclaimed "anarcho-capitalist" president, continues to make good on his pledge to take a "chainsaw" to government spending and to what he has termed his country's "political caste." Milei evidently kept the chainsaw running after signing an executive order ear.
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(Bloomberg) Argentina’s annual inflation rate is galloping toward its fastest pace in three decades, and a rift between the nation’s two most powerful politicians threatens to make it even worse.
The government publishes the March inflation report at 4 p.m.