i have noticed the same; you'll get a ton of different numbers like "Buy" or "Sell" but then the people on the street, and the credit card MEP rate, are different from either of those. it would be nice to have a conversion app between USD/Euro/etc. and ARS pesos that also includes the current Visa and MasterCard MEP rate, since that's the most-relevant number most people are using day-to-day
@Avocado just because someone supports Milei doesn't mean they worship him as a person; for me, if Milei ends up being a WEF and IMF shill that doesn't de-regulate the economy, i will throw him in the
basura. my support is because Argentina's massive amounts of laws and government-imposed 'services' and 'rights' are the exact same thing that Eva Peron did: tax citizens for special-interest projects that end up being donations to lobbying groups. money is spent by the government without a vote, to no benefit for the people, and the ultra-rich that can afford to bribe the federal government become even more rich.
have you ever listened to a non-Keynesian economist before?
Milei follows the Lugwig von Mises/Rothbard/Austrian-style economics approach to life: let the market operate as Adam Smith intended, with an invisible hand. no one person or agency can predict what price a kilogram of race should be, but the market (functioning as 8 billion decisions made every second, continuously),
can predict with perfect accuracy. without the federal government interfering in every single aspect of life, Argentina would become like Norway...vast natural resources, huge landscapes to innovate in, and connected to worldwide trade partners. the trick of Socialism is making us believe there is an evil cabal of ultra-rich people who want to perpetuate the serfdom of regular people or "workers" - those ultra-rich are the politicians in the federal government like Peron (and today, Massa), who you keep voting for.