Immigration from countries with relatively high birthrates does not, as commonly claimed, help a host country reverse or even halt the decline in its own birthrate, writes Mark Krikorian in The American Mind. Krikorian cites studies concluding that high immigration actually lowers the propensity of locals to make their own babies. Other than Israel, writes Krikorian, every advanced country in the world now faces demographic disaster.
Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.
