Javier Milei

Economist, television personality, and President of Argentina since December 2023. This is a neutral reference to his life, his ideas, his verified words — and his presidency's economic record as reported by official statistics and attributed sources on all sides.

What this site is

Digital Milei is a reference site about Javier Milei (born 22 October 1970): the Argentine economist whose anarcho-capitalist ideas, chainsaw theatrics, and “Viva la libertad, carajo!” rallies carried him from television panels to the Casa Rosada. It covers:

Start Here — the five-minute orientation: who he is, what he believes, what he has done in office, and what to read first.
Biography — his life from Palermo to the presidency, with uncertainty marked where the record is thin.
Timeline — 18 dated events, each labeled by how well the date is established.
Sayings — 12 verified quotations, each with its published source. Nothing apocryphal.
People — the dozen figures who matter: his sister Karina, Luis Caputo, Victoria Villarruel, his dogs, his allies and rivals.
Public Record — inflation, poverty, and growth figures as reported by INDEC, the IMF, and cited reporting.
Shock Therapy — the austerity program: the devaluation, the cuts, the fiscal anchor.
Stream — the concept for a YouTube live channel with the owner’s animated Milei character.

The one-paragraph version

Javier Gerardo Milei was born in 1970 in Buenos Aires. A trained economist who spent two decades at banks and private firms, he became a national figure around 2015 as a combative television panelist preaching Austrian-school economics. He founded the La Libertad Avanza coalition, won a seat in Congress in 2021, and then — promising to take a chainsaw to the state, abolish the central bank, and dollarize the economy — defeated Sergio Massa in the November 2023 presidential runoff with 55.65% of the vote. In office he has pursued drastic austerity: a 54% peso devaluation, deep spending cuts, a mega-decree and omnibus reform law, and the dismantling of most currency controls in April 2025 under a $20 billion IMF program. Official statistics show annual inflation falling from a peak near 290% in early 2024 to 33.5% in August 2026 — a decline his supporters credit to the fiscal anchor and his critics attribute partly to recession and suppressed demand. See Public Record and Criticism & Support.

How to use this site

New here? Read Start Here.
Want the chronology? Go to the Timeline.
Want his actual words? See Sayings — every quote sourced, nothing invented.
Want the economic data? Public Record gives the official numbers with attribution.

A note on neutrality. This site covers a living politician with active supporters and opponents. It does not endorse or attack him. Economic claims carry their sources; disputed ones carry both sides' attributions. Quotations are verbatim and sourced; reported-but-unconfirmed material is flagged as such. See the methodology.

Source notes

Site scope and editorial policy set 2026-09-26 (see methodology and sources).
Economic data as of September 2026: INDEC (Argentina’s statistics agency), the IMF, and cited reporting from Reuters and the Associated Press. Political biography draws on Argentine press archives (La Nación, Clarín, Infobae) and his published books.