Strong public employment drop
He national Public Employment registered a historical fall in the last twelve months. According to the updated INDEC report, as of March 31, 2025, the State had 294,462 workers, 35,664 less than a year ago. This reduction is equivalent to a 10.8 percent decline. The government celebrates these numbers as a result of its policy to reduce public spending and accelerate the adjustment of the State. The countercara is an economy that does not raise their heads.
In the detail of the report it was stressed that the most of the loss of jobs He concentrated on the National Public Administration, which went from 225,000 employees to just over 200,000 in one year. Only between February and March, more than 2300 positions were lost in the centralized area, which represents a monthly decrease of 5.5 percent.
Imported, more expensive fruits and vegetables
By Mara Pedrazzoli
Con differences that reach 160 percentthe prices of imported fruits and vegetables exceed national production. Therefore, the import deregulation policy promoted by Federico Sturzenegger’s portfolio is questioned by consumer defense organizations: Who benefits from this measure? Why allocate currencies to the importation of products more expensive than domestic?
The National Government defends, even in the most unthinkable cases, the opening policy to imports to lower, through competition, the price of goods in the market. In the case of fruits and vegetables, this decision is curious because The products that enter from the outside are more expensive than the premises, so the price discipline can hardly operate. For this reason from the defense of users and consumers (Deuco) they made a survey of wholesale prices of food admitted from abroad and ask who benefit from this measure
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Inflation: Milei threw the ball for 2026
President Milei ran the arch again in inflationary matters, by promising that “by the middle of next year, inflation will be history.” In the campaign, the then candidate set a period of 18 to 24 months, which would be fulfilled between the middle and end of this year. In addition, Milei made a lit defense of the economic direction, in a radio interview.
In spite of the adjustments, the fall in employment and salary, the collapse of consumption and collapse of the indices of several productive sectors, Milei made an unusual interpretation of the data that, according to him, speak of an economy that at the end of the year will have grown by 10 percent: “The economy grew strong, the last data is 5.7 but if you take the desstation. Quarter (this year) will be showing an economy growing at 6 percent and second to 8, ”he risked.
With these forecasts, whose source did not specify, emphasized that the Government determined that “it is now time to start discussing growth”, but however asked society that “you have to know how to wait and you don’t have to get anxious.”
SMEs question the model
The SME APyME association differs from the position of most of the economic power and, within the framework of the day of the Worker, issued a statement criticizing government policies. They detailed that “in a new commemoration of this day APyme greets the workers and workers, accompanies their historical claims and reiterates their call to the necessary unity of all sectors linked to national production and the internal market, attacked by the policies of the current government.”
They added that “in the face of labor flexibility, which the Government will seek to deepen as part of the demands of external creditors, APYME warns again that it removes it of rights does not produce greater hiring but a new cycle, becoming deeper and deeper, of precariousness, loss of salary, decrease in purchasing power and fall in the demand of the internal market, the main support of SMEs, which in turn generates 70 % of the private employment.”
Market closure in April, the month of the debut of the new exchange rate regime
The official dollar closed on Wednesday at 1193.88 pesos in the average of financial entities. Meanwhile, at the National Bank the ticket was traded at 1190.00 pesos, while the Blue dollar fell to 1185 pesos. In April, the parallel dollar accumulated a setback of 140 pesos or 10.6 percent, in a month marked by the flexibility of exchange controls and the return of the financial bicycle.
In turn, international gross reserves fell 138 million dollars and closed for the first time in five wheels below 39,000 million. The Central Bank remained without intervening in the official change markettaking into account that the currency in the wholesale segment operated inside the bands.
