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Venezuelan economy to turn even worse in 2016, study finds
FOX News Latino ^ | February 26, 2016

Posted on 02/28/2016 6:37:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

If misery loves company, then at least Venezuela is located in the right corner of the globe.

A recent study projects that the South American nation has far and away the world's most miserable economy in 2016, nearly four times worse off than second-place Argentina.

A survey conducted by Bloomberg Business using the "misery index" projects that Venezuela in 2016 will continue to worsen.

Bloomberg estimates that Venezuela's inflation rate will rise from 98.3 percent last year to 152 percent in 2016. Argentina, another South American nation that has flirted with socialist economic policies, is facing many similar problems. With a projected misery index of 39.9, Argentina vaulted from No. 5 on the 2015 misery list to second place.

(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: failure; hugochavezlegacy; socialism; socialists; venezuela

1 posted on 02/28/2016 6:37:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They needed a “study” for this? It was done already - in North Korea, USSR, Cuba, Angola, etc.


2 posted on 02/28/2016 6:41:29 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow, didn’t see that coming.

L


3 posted on 02/28/2016 6:42:42 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

5 year plan, baby!


4 posted on 02/28/2016 6:48:52 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great Leap Forward!


5 posted on 02/28/2016 6:50:42 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: ecomcon

We will smelt cast iron!


6 posted on 02/28/2016 6:51:25 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That is the perfect response to this article.

7 posted on 02/28/2016 6:52:34 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just like the Clintons stole all the Ws off the computers and furniture from the WH as a last slap in the face to America, the Kenyan will write out checks for millions of dollars in aid for Venezuela and every other country around the world.


8 posted on 02/28/2016 6:54:31 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am sure that Harry Bellafonte and Sean Penn blame George Bush for the bad economy in Venezuela.


9 posted on 02/28/2016 7:22:52 AM PST by djpg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Witness... socialism at its greatest.


10 posted on 02/28/2016 7:30:52 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Berny wants to embrace this path, Venezuela has even more easily extracted wealth per capita than we have. Our economy is far more depended upon our people’s work ethic.
Meaning it will take far more totalitarian force to control such an economy and extract the wealth Berny requires to pay off his lazy supporters.


11 posted on 02/28/2016 7:50:26 AM PST by Monorprise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Must be one of those magic droughts that only affect communist countries.


12 posted on 02/28/2016 8:10:51 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Argentina, Venezuela......Sanders supporters need to look at what happened.


13 posted on 02/28/2016 8:14:32 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People without bathroom tissue/Lives/Matter!


14 posted on 02/28/2016 8:46:18 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Lurker

But. .. but. .. free stuff.


15 posted on 02/28/2016 8:51:50 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Venezuelan economy to turn even worse

How much worse can it get.


16 posted on 02/28/2016 8:51:57 AM PST by Koracan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shoes for industry! Shoes for the dead!


17 posted on 02/28/2016 8:53:14 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Bernie has not seen that study and Hillary never gave a $!^^


18 posted on 02/28/2016 10:24:14 AM PST by saintgermaine (The Time Traveler)
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To: kearnyirish2

Maduro can always call on his lap dogs Penn, Spacey, Glover and Oliver for financial help, right?

Right?

Hello?


19 posted on 02/28/2016 11:21:52 AM PST by DPMD
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To: DPMD

Yes, like Roberto Clemente, Sean Penn will fly down on a plane loaded with toilet paper he bought himself...not.


20 posted on 02/28/2016 8:22:16 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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