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Javier Milei
President, Argentina
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President Javier Milei on his administration and Argentina's growth | 2026 #CouncilARG

📅 Aug 20, 2026 Americas Society/Council of the Americas 59 MIN 21663 VIEWS 55 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
"My mandate was to lower inflation and grow the economy, and I am going to fulfill it," said President Javier Milei during the 2026 COA Conference: Argentina. Milei, who delivered the closing remarks of the event, presented his growth model as a combination of fiscal stability, deregulation, trade openness, and technological progress, framed within a defense of freedom and private property. "In the face of intellectual precariousness, ignorance, and ill intent, the first response is in the best style of Milton Friedman: first the data," said the president before reviewing the macroeconomic ac...

What Javier Milei said

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President Javier Milei defended his economic model, arguing that Argentina's growth is real and that critics rely on flawed data. He cited inflation falling from 211.4% to 31.5%, wholesale inflation at 0.8% in July, and GDP growth of 6% in 2024 and 4% in 2025, totaling over 10 percentage points in two years. He attributed this to fiscal adjustment, deregulation (17,000 regulations removed), trade opening, and tax cuts, and predicted energy exports will quintuple by 2031. He dismissed claims of rising unemployment, citing a 7.8% rate, and defended his policies as fair and efficient, framing the battle as moral, not economic. He also mentioned his new book 'Morality as State Policy' and praised figures like Elon Musk and Federico Sturzenegger.

Key takeaways

  1. Inflation reduced from 211.4% to 31.5%, an 85% drop, with wholesale inflation at 0.8% in July.
  2. GDP grew 6% in 2024 and 4% in 2025, accumulating over 10 percentage points in two years.
  3. Energy exports will quintuple by 2031, with a surplus of $10 billion today.
  4. Country risk fell from 3,000 to between 450 and 500 points.
  5. Unemployment is at 7.8%, not rising despite company closures.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
211.4% to 31.5% Annual inflation reduction under Milei metric 4:39
0.8% Wholesale inflation in July metric 5:53
6% GDP growth in 2024 metric 9:52
4% GDP growth in 2025 metric 9:52
10 percentage points Accumulated GDP expansion in first two years metric 11:02
15 points of GDP Fiscal adjustment made metric 27:13
14 million People taken out of poverty metric 27:13
20% to 6% Indigence rate reduction metric 27:13
70% to 42% Child poverty rate reduction metric 27:13
100% to less than 40% Debt-to-GDP ratio reduction metric 28:24

Chapters

  1. 0:00Inflation reduction achievements
  2. 7:27Economic growth record
  3. 14:52Growth model theory
  4. 24:48Three pillars of strategy
  5. 27:13Fiscal and social results
  6. 34:36Trade opening and deregulation
  7. 48:44Energy and natural resources
  8. 54:18Fairness and moral battle
Narrator 0:16 ↗
We welcome the President of the Nation, Dr. Javier Milei, who is participating in the closing of the 23rd edition of the Argentine Conference on Economic and Political Perspectives. He is accompanied by the President of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce and Services, Mr. Natalio Green, and the President and Executive Director of the Americas Society Council of the Americas, Susana Sigal. We will now hear the words of the President of the Nation, Dr. Javier Milei.

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Milei, J. (2026, August 20). President Javier Milei on his administration and Argentina's growth | 2026 #CouncilARG [Interview transcript]. Americas Society/Council of the Americas. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1241597/

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Javier Milei. "President Javier Milei on his administration and Argentina's growth | 2026 #CouncilARG." Americas Society/Council of the Americas, 20 Aug. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1241597/.

BibTeX 
@misc{milei2026_1241597,
  author       = {Javier Milei},
  title        = {President Javier Milei on his administration and Argentina's growth | 2026 #CouncilARG},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Americas Society/Council of the Americas. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {aug},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1241597/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}