Delirium Tremens du Jour: 99 Red Balloons (Updated)
Click on this. Words just fail. [I can’t seem to embed just the relevant – by which I mean “staggeringly insane” – 40 seconds of the video.] Update:...
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My so-called polity
I guess we can add this to the list of impossible things we’ll have to explain to our grandchildren somehow one day… Faced with the very real possibility...
Tío Conejo Chronicles: are Venezuelans really hostile to Foreigners?
A guest post from Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez Last week, the World Economic Forum released its “Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report” for 2013. The study rated 140 countries on various...
"Juan Cristobal is exactly right." -Diosdado Cabello
National Assembly chairman Diosdado Cabello’s bizarre rant yesterday baffled and amazed me. Diosdado expressly cedes Juan’s point – yup, we’re crazy – in language poised exquisitely between Trash Talk and...
Giordani's Yerkciv Auction - (Vickrey, but backwards)
One of the privileges of blogging is that when you write something that’s just plain wrong, somebody will come along and set you straight quite quickly. So I’m...
Ecce Vickrey
Setting aside the insane, Kafka-on-Burundanga administrative side of the new SICAD system, there’s a second set of questions that are more macroeconomic in nature – i.e., what’s the...
SICAD: Birth of a Red Tape Behemoth
There was huge confusion yesterday following the launch of SICAD (the newfangled “Sistema Complementario de Administración de Divisas”), meant to supply additional dollars to importers shut out of the...
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