#news #video with a bunch of #economics talking heads arguing about what it means that #Argentina’s inflation is now down to 2.4% per month.
#news #video with a bunch of talking heads discussing #Milei’s #economics tweet (“Sigan llorando econochantas de mandrilandia”) that the #Argentina’s GDP went up 3.9% from the second quarter to the third quarter, which would be an unheard-of annualized 16.5% growth if it were true, following the earlier fall (which a talking head incorrectly says was 3%). Apparently the central bank has bought US$3.5 billion in dollars from private companies in the last 2½ months, increasing its reserves. And the riesgo país is below 700 basis points (7%) for the first time in a long time.
#news #video with #economics #statistics about #Argentina: +3.9% GDP in the third quarter of 02024, -1.7% the previous one, -2.1% the one before that, and -1.9% from the last quarter of 02023. That still leaves us 2% below the last quarter of 02023. The talking head in the video, however, says it leaves us 0.1% below. It seems like this is a combination of calculation errors (maybe he’s naïvely adding percentages instead of multiplying, or maybe I’m using incorrectly rounded numbers) and not counting the -1.9%. He also says that the quarter-on-quarter growth in construction activity was 6.9% and in industrial production was 13.6%. The year-on-year figures he shows seem to show a dismaying backslide towards a resource-extraction economy: 32.0% growth in agriculture, 7.3% growth in mining, 7% growth in fishing, 2.9% growth in hospitality [...] and a 10.7% drop in manufacturing and a 14.9% drop in construction. Which I guess are the sectors that rebounded most sharply in this last quarter. And apparently last year there was a drought.
#news #video on Argentine policeman #Nahuel-Gallo being imprisoned in #Venezuela when he tried to visit his wife and child, who live there with her family; in response, Patricia Bullrich (the minister of security of #Argentina) called Diosdado Cabello (the Venezuelan minister of the interior) “el lacayo de una dictadura criminal y cobarde. (...) La argentina no se somete a tiranos.” So it’s an international incident. #politics
#PDF slides for Dan Bernstein’s talk “The Death of Optimizing #Compilers”. #DJB
#news #video about how #Milei (or rather his political ally Jorge Macri) is instituting a US-like policy of sending the police to beat up homeless people and stealing their possessions. Currently there are supposedly 4400 homeless people in Buenos Aires (presumably this means the city), 10% more than last year and 2.5× as many as five years ago. #politics #human-rights #Argentina
#humor #video about the creepily smiling girl in the house fire photo, who it turns out is named Zoë Roth.
#video #news: #Milei betting on #nuclear #energy. Doh! #politics
#video of right-wing Fox #news using #Milei as an example for #USA #politics
#humor #video of “Breaking Up With Overly Attached Girlfriend”