Donald Trump grabbed the spotlight in Davos on Thursday, even if he wasn’t physically there, but other things happened at the annual meeting of world elites in the Swiss ski village. One of his biggest fans on the world stage,
Argentina’s firebrand libertarian president, Javier Milei, delivered a thunderous speech that sent shockwaves through the global elite.
“I’m pretty comfortable with the market expectations for the upcoming two meetings,” the Dutch central banker told Bloomberg TV. “I’m not convinced yet that we need to go into stimulative mode.”
Speaking at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, Argentina's President Javier Milei says he has found "comrades in this fight for the ideas of freedom", in likeminded leaders such as US President Donald Trump,
Milei was in an ebullient mood, cheered on by an appreciative Davos audience. He has some justification for a victory lap after delivering Argentina’s first fiscal surplus since 2009 and wrangling monthly inflation to under 3% — from over 25% when he took office in late 2023.
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Leading business and political figures attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have discussed and debated topics such as technology, tariffs, climate change, Ukraine, Gaza and the global economy this week.
"If you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply, you will have to pay a tariff."
Milei name checked as allies in the fight against socialism Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, Viktor Orban and others during his address at the
“His diagnosis of the problem in Argentina is 100% correct,” says Graham Stock, the senior emerging markets strategist at BlueBay Asset Management. Stock watched Milei’s Davos speech from ...
Chief Shekhar Gupta analyses the Argentinian President's speech at World Economic Forum in Davos & its broader implications.