Giving people free money can be expensive!
Reading Quico’s arbitrage how-to-manual, the casual reader could be forgiven for thinking that these are the exceptions in Venezuela. It’s not like that. The revolution is all about...
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Things that you cannot make up, part 17,286
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Our Real Comparative Advantage is in Arbitrage
Now that the government has ever-so-sovereignly declared that Bs.31,200 is the sovereign price of a ton of aluminum in the domestic market, why not try this fun experiment at home?...
Guayana, meet the Hegemony
All kinds of very strange stories have been circulating about the situation in the SOE-Hearland of Ciudad Guayana, where a SIDOR strike that’s about to enter its third...
The Best Reporting I've Seen on Venezuelan Prisons Yet
SBS, an Australian public broadcaster, is a bit of an unknown entity to me. But this report by Giovana Vitola from inside Margarita’s prison is an absolute tour...
Trip Advisor: Caracas
Sounds like a luvly place for a vacation, huh? The start of the season for two premier teams in this baseball-loving nation was thrown into doubt after thieves...
Reuters on Fire
Two great, eye-opening pieces on Venezuela landed from Reuters yesterday. First, Brian Ellsworth and Eyanir Chinea delve into the inscrutable mystery of ¿dónde están los reales del SICAD? The...
A Samán-onic decision
While the government is busy putting pressure on supermarkets and the media to “control” food shortages, what about those organized street vendors who sell scarce in the streets...
The roadmap, part III: Creating an ecosystem for growth
(A series of posts on how Venezuela can begin to grow again. For some background, see here and here) The second regularity the authors find in The Growth...
The smoking squirt gun
This is the video that proves, PROVES the expelled American diplomats are responsible for everything wrong in Venezuela. Words fail me. Extra points for the first reader to...
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