Volunteer Heaven!
The response to my Call for Volunteers last week has been amazing…so many dataheads, so little time! Thanks so much to everyone who’s written in. (And to those...
Economy
Volunteer as a Caracas Chronicles Research Intern!
CaracasChronicles is looking for volunteer data-heads to help carry out a unique research project ahead of the 2012 Presidential Elections. Parlez-vous Stata? Do you have 2 to 10...
New media is all you need
Last Sunday, Setty informed us that an important pipeline carrying natural gas from Colombia to Venezuela was bombed, possibly by the FARC. He said: “It’s a big deal...
The Targetting vs. Universality Debate
A key issue any future opposition government is going to have to deal with is a very old one in First World social policy, but one barely talked...
I'll see your 16,000 murders and raise you a meeting in Germany
Over on CronicasDeCaracas.net, even the legendarily equanimous MoraimaG can’t help but blow her top at Chávez’s waste-of-protoplasm-as-tourism-minister Alejandro Fleming Cabrera.
Even the government hates government
Whether it’s fixing potholes or keeping our streets safe, pumping our oil safely or distributing its rents fairly, there is simply very little our government gets right. Like...
The glut around the corner?
CNN is reporting that other countries are joining Saudi Arabia and raising crude production in light of the prolongued conflict in Libya. The list, as you can fathom,...
Could SENIAT be pulled alive from the wreckage?
Over in Spanish, Moraima thinks so.
Oil Sky-Rockets, Venezuelan Bonds Plunge
It takes a minute or two to fully absorb this Bloomberg chart: It shows the correlation between oil prices and Venezuelan sovereign bond prices. Venezuela’s ability to pay...
Revolutionary Priorities
The blue bars are the government’s 2011 spending budget. The orange bar is our estimate of the opportunity cost of selling gas below the world price.
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