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Venezuela’s currency is dying
Washington Post ^ | November 4, 2016 | Matt O'Brien

Posted on 11/05/2016 6:52:36 AM PDT by C19fan

To paraphrase noted economic expert Obi-Wan Kenobi, many of the truths we cling to about currencies really do depend greatly on our own point-of-view. Take Venezuela. The good news is that, if you look at it over a long enough timeline, its currency hasn't changed much the past month. The bad news, though, is that's because it's gone from being almost worthless to almost entirely worthless. And the worse news is that it's actually lost over a third of its value during this stretch.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: inflation; socialism; venezuela
One of the side effects of the Chavistas trying to deny thee is a problem is they have kept the same bank notes despite the value decreasing by 99.4%. So there are no equivalents to the Zimbabwe $100 trillion bank note for collecting. Only recently has the Chavistas announced they will issue new bank notes with some additional zeros.
1 posted on 11/05/2016 6:52:36 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Less currency should die.

More leftists should.


2 posted on 11/05/2016 7:05:16 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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And how will they pay for it? With more Bolivar’s??


3 posted on 11/05/2016 7:06:10 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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I feel great sorrow for the good honest Venezuelans that tried to prevent Hugo Chavez from ruining their country.

But now I want the Chavistas to suffer incredible pain and hardship. They brought this ALL on themselves.

In the same way, I also want the stinking liberals in the USA to suffer greatly. They voted for the ObamaCare dog pile and now have to eat it. Just wait until welfare collapses. You haven’t seen anything yet.


4 posted on 11/05/2016 7:07:20 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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Sean Penn and the rest of the celebritards who cheered the commie takeover should be made to dispense their personal wealth to the Venezuelans and forced to live there.


5 posted on 11/05/2016 7:10:40 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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6 posted on 11/05/2016 8:07:30 AM PDT by PGR88
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For a minute there, I thought Jose Valenzuela was dying.


7 posted on 11/05/2016 8:18:51 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (A Vote for Hillary is a Vote for ISIS!)
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To: C19fan

Might become collectibles someday. Buy some and gift them to your kids.


8 posted on 11/05/2016 8:54:44 AM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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Commodities like oil and drugs and guns are the currency of the Venezuelan apparatchik. They also dabble in the laundering trade.


9 posted on 11/05/2016 9:16:14 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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Coming soon if Hillary gets elected to the USA...


10 posted on 11/05/2016 3:47:21 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Just wait until welfare collapses. You haven’t seen anything yet.

Welfare does not collapse alone and the people won't just starve they way they did in the Great Depression.

11 posted on 11/06/2016 10:29:50 AM PST by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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