The view from the North Pole

On October 19, speaking to oil and gas executives in the Patagonian province of Neuquén, President Javier Milei asked a question that millions of Argentines could have answered for him. “If they truly run out of money on the 20th, can you tell me how they live ten days without eating or drinking?” He was mocking the idea that many Argentines run out of money by the 20th day of the month, a complaint he dismissed as an invention of the Kirchnerites, the followers of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The claim, he said, was a “ pelotudez del tamaño de una casa ,” roughly…