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Venezuelans Give Up on Counting Piles of Cash and Start Weighing Them [Bloomberg Link Only]
Bloomberg [Link Only] ^
| October 31, 2016
| Fabiola Zerpa and Andrew Rosati
Posted on 10/31/2016 7:58:38 AM PDT by C19fan
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: inflation; venezuela
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:58:38 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:59:51 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: PGR88
Weimar Republic revisited
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posted on
10/31/2016 8:01:52 AM PDT
by
ptsal
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/31/2016 8:02:29 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
To: PGR88
I expect fairly soon for Maduro’s own party to remove him.
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posted on
10/31/2016 8:02:36 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: C19fan
I’m surprised they are still using money. At this point in the Socialism death spiral, the citizens usually are resorting to pure barter.
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posted on
10/31/2016 8:21:34 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: C19fan
Venezuela is becoming Zimbabwe-of-South-America.
How soon before they start issuing $100 Trillion Dollar notes?
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posted on
10/31/2016 8:27:45 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: C19fan
They should rename their currency “the pound”.
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posted on
10/31/2016 8:41:07 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: C19fan
At least the toilet paper crisis is over.
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posted on
10/31/2016 8:52:05 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: C19fan
Does anybody actually feel sorry for these people?
I don't.
This is the society they chose for themselves.
To: dfwgator
The dilemma of a tyrant like Maduro or Hillary is they must increase repression because they are finished once they lose power.
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posted on
10/31/2016 10:09:20 AM PDT
by
TheNext
(Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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