The Race Against Time: Can Argentina's Economy Recover Before the Election Kills the Reform?

Economics Matters with Laurence Kotlikoff · Sep 2, 2026 · 1h 3m

What if solving Argentina's inflation crisis required nothing more than a single televised announcement — and the government is still not making it?

Emilio Ocampo advised President Milei during his 2023 presidential campaign, spent decades as a managing director at Morgan Stanley, and has spent the better part of his career making the case for Argentina to do the one thing almost everyone agrees would work, and almost no one in power is willing to do: dollarize.

In this episode, Professor Kotlikoff, who visited Buenos Aires in November and published his own dollarization proposal in the…