Buenos Aires — Niall Ferguson believes that Argentina under Javier Milei could be remembered as “one of the economic miracles of the 2020s” — and he’s betting his own money on it. The renowned British economic historian has invested in both liquid and illiquid Argentine assets, telling Bloomberg Línea that election day 2023 was the day to buy and that many foreign investors missed out on one of the world’s “best trades.”

Ferguson, who was in Buenos Aires last week to interview Milei for The Free Press , says the Libertarian’s reforms are “ the best shot Argentina has had in our lifetimes ” to break more than seven decades of economic failure. The Stanford and Harvard fellow believes what sets this attempt apart is that it represents a complete “policy regime change” — in a

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