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In praise of Blogging the Revolution
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Tag Archives: Shortages
My Kingdom for a Cake
Long-time friend of the blog Emiliana Duarte contributed this little ditty just before Tuesday’s announcement. I hope you don’t find it’s too soon: we need a change of pace around here. This is a post about cake, and how I … Continue reading
Asthma Attack Chronicles
Probably the most distress-inducing thing I’ve read about Venezuela in the last few months is stuck away between parenthesis in this MUD press release: Venezuela is now experiencing a shortage of bronchodilators – the key ingredient in inhalers for managing sudden … Continue reading
Explaining Shortages
Spend a semester in an introductory economics course and the link between price controls and scarcity becomes perfectly clear to you. Thing is, 99% of the population won’t spend a semester studying economics. So…¿cómo se hace? Maybe like this… or … Continue reading
