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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

1 posted on 10/31/2016 7:58:38 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Woo Hoo! socialism!


2 posted on 10/31/2016 7:59:51 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Weimar Republic revisited


3 posted on 10/31/2016 8:01:52 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: C19fan

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3486898/posts

The Atlantic Accidentally Reveals why the Second Amendment is important.


4 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.)
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To: PGR88

I expect fairly soon for Maduro’s own party to remove him.


5 posted on 10/31/2016 8:02:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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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.


6 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.")
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Venezuela is becoming Zimbabwe-of-South-America.

How soon before they start issuing $100 Trillion Dollar notes?


7 posted on 10/31/2016 8:27:45 AM PDT by TomGuy
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They should rename their currency “the pound”.


8 posted on 10/31/2016 8:41:07 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: C19fan

At least the toilet paper crisis is over.


9 posted on 10/31/2016 8:52:05 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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Does anybody actually feel sorry for these people?

I don't.

This is the society they chose for themselves.

10 posted on 10/31/2016 9:26:00 AM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: dfwgator

The dilemma of a tyrant like Maduro or Hillary is they must increase repression because they are finished once they lose power.


11 posted on 10/31/2016 10:09:20 AM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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