Tyler Cowen, Columnist

Argentina’s Future Is With the Dollar

Presidential candidate Javier Milei has some unorthodox policy ideas, but at least one is simple common sense: dollarizing his country’s economy.

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Photographer: LUIS ROBAYO/AFP

Argentina’s leading presidential candidate, Javier Milei, has some unorthodox ideas about policy (he wants to abolish central banks), politics (he is libertarian) and pets (he has five cloned dogs). One of his proposals, however, is simple common sense: dollarizing Argentina’s economy.

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