The economist and former rector of the CEMA University Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez joined this Saturday the neoliberal leaders who distance themselves from Javier Milei, disqualifying his statements and questioning his economic policies, mainly monetary ones.
Rodríguez referred to the Argentine president’s statements before the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, on Friday, when he launched a threat that he had already made before: “Once the Central Bank is cleaned up, we are going to send a project of law to Congress by which issuing money is a crime, and is a crime against humanity, and if money is issued, the president of the nation, the minister of economy, the president of the central bank must go to prison…”
“You better stop bragging and talking nonsense,” Carlos Rodríguez responded from his X account. “In 30 days (from May 7 to June 7) the Monetary Base, that is, Money, grew (it was issued) 31.7 percent. That is equivalent to an annualized high-power money issuance rate of 2,634 percent. These are official data from the BCRA’s Weekly Balance,” the tweet concludes.
Later, to a comment from a reader alluding to Milei’s emotional instability, Rodríguez responded: “That man doesn’t give a damn about reality. He’s living a dream…”
Carlos Rodríguez had accompanied Milei during the presidential campaign, in 2023, as a “senior” advisor, but he soon left. This week, Milei and Caputo received strong criticism from another militant close to the current president, Carlos Maslatón, and from the financial analyst and confessed Milei voter, Christian Buteler.
“Caputo and Milei do not have any surplus at all and are two efficient machines solely for melting the State and the people,” Maslatón published, commenting on the figures for the increase in public debt, based on figures reported in turn by Buteler.
He, in turn, had published in his In another tweet he adds: “This calculation does not include the US$10 billion that the BCRA owes in Bopreal, which would raise the increase in debt to US$63.7 billion.”
