Clandestine capitalists
Work hard so you can earn a living. Buy cheap, add value, and sell for a profit. Take a risk, and reap the rewards. These are all basic...
Economy
Economic cyberwar
Missing in the news whirlpool of the last few days was the recent online crackdown to shut down websites that informed (directly or indirectly) the prices of the...
Breaking down Maduro-nomics
Maduro. Sunday night: “I have decided, once the Enabling Law is approved, to set percentage limits on earnings in every sector of the economy” Really Nicolás? Every sector?...
Usury: hard to define, but we know it when we see it
Pity poor José Gregorio Fernández. Before a few days ago, nobody knew who he was. Now, he is one of the token prisoners in the government’s war against...
Looking for wind power? Not in this wind farm
This picture recently posted online by Bloomberg’s correspondent in Venezuela Anatoly Kurmanaev is from the La Guajira wind farm in Northwest Venezuela (built as a joint venture with...
Arreaza's Culprit
Days ago, I had a good laugh at VP Jorge Arreaza’s bizarre contention that there was some kind of private conspiracy to jack up the monetary liquidity numbers...
Zuñi-ordani-nomics 101
Old lefties have a soft spot for pseudonyms. J.V. Rangel is Marciano, Teodoro is Simon Boccanegra, everybody knows about those. But recently, Felipe Pérez alleged that our own...
A territorial mess, cont.
Venezuela is divided into states. States are divided into municipalities. Each municipality has one mayor, and each state has one governor.That is what the Constitution says. Simple, right?...
Make gas a priority
Reading this story on the latest goings-on in the liquified natural gas market, I keep thinking back to 1990, the first time I heard about “Proyecto Cristóbal Colón.”...
"We will produce ONE HUNDRED BILLION BARRELS OF OIL"
Setty doesn’t beat around the bush: Rafael Ramírez has zero credibility.
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