The View From Your Electric Bill: 13 cents/kWh in Michigan
Here’s a revolutionary insight: maybe underpricing leads to overconsumption! Could that have anything to do with the electric crisis in Venezuela? You tell us. In Michigan, you pay...
The View From Your Electric Bill: 7 cents/kWh in Montreal
As the electricity crisis deepens in Venezuela, it strikes me that one basic variable is missing from this whole discussion: price. In all the back-and-forth about drought and...
In defense of Simon Romero
Quico and I got into a bit of a disagreement this morning about the tone of his recent posts on Simón Romero’s work covering Venezuela for the New...
When bland journalism reads like a hatchet job
Reading Simón Romero’s New York Times piece on the intensifying wave of repression in recent weeks is a strange experience – and one that paints a vivid picture...
Mutatis Mutandi
Julian Sánchez says: One of the more striking features of the contemporary chavista movement is the extent to which it has been moving toward epistemic closure. Reality is...
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