Trump’s lifeline to Milei: A bailout hanging by a thread

Why Argentina is looking to the Trump administration for a bailout − and what the US Treasury can do to help

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With potential Argentina bailout, Trump tries to stop a MAGA role model from imploding

Trump and the MAGA movement have framed Argentina as a shining success. But throwing American tax dollars at its economy tells a different story.

Trump’s lifeline to Milei: A bailout hanging by a thread

The unprecedented US financial aid, hailed at the Casa Rosada as a major victory, puts the Argentine president under the Republican’s influence

Farmers Outraged by Trump's Controversial Argentina Bailout

Farmers across Argentina have voiced strong opposition to the government’s recent bailout package, widely associated with former U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic strategies. The controversial aid measures, intended to stabilize the struggling agricultural sector amid spiraling inflation and export restrictions, have instead sparked outrage among producers who argue the plan favors large agribusinesses and fails to address the core challeng…

Is Trump’s US$20 billion bailout for Argentina a strategic lifeline or political favouritism?

This intervention represents one of the most substantial bilateral economic assistance packages of his second term

Michael Roberts - Argentina: the chainsaw breaks down - Brave New Europe

Libertarian economics was always farcically out-of-touch with the realities of modern capitalism and it has proved as such in the case of Javier Milei, perhaps the world’s only libertarian head of state. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Last week US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered a $20bn swap line to Javier Milei’s government in Argentina and pledged to buy its bonds, as the Trump administration moved to shore up its ideological…