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Venezuela to remove five zeroes from ailing currency
Reuters ^ | July 25, 2018 7:46 PM | Brian Ellsworth

Posted on 07/25/2018 9:43:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Venezuela will remove five zeroes from the bolivar currency rather than the three zeroes originally planned, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday, in an effort to keep up with inflation projected to reach 1 million percent this year.

The OPEC nation’s economy has been steadily collapsing since the 2014 crash of oil prices left it unable to maintain its socialist economic system that for years provided lavish subsidies while enforcing strict price controls.

Annual inflation in June topped 46,000 percent, according to the opposition-run Congress. The IMF said this week it could hit seven digits this year, putting it on par with the crises of Zimbabwe in the 2000s and Germany in the 1920s.

“The monetary reconversion will start on Aug. 20,” Maduro said in a televised broadcast, showing new bills that are to be released next month.

He said the overhaul would tie the bolivar to the recently launched state-backed cryptocurrency called the petro, without offering details. Cryptocurrency experts have said the petro suffers from a lack of credibility because of a lack of confidence in Maduro’s government and the mismanagement of the country’s existing national currency. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolivar; communism; communismepicfail; cryptocurrency; depression; epicfail; hyperinflation; maduro; opec; petro; recession; socialismepicfail; venezuela
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To: Olog-hai

“The OPEC nation’s economy has been steadily collapsing since the 2014 crash of oil prices”

That’s what a turd of a rag Reuters is that they blame the cratering of the economy on the oil prices. Nothing to do with the rabid socialists running a once wealthy country into the ground.


21 posted on 07/25/2018 11:05:13 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Olog-hai

Keep the zeros and get rid of all the other numbers. It would be more accurate.


22 posted on 07/25/2018 11:22:40 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline is here. you just can't see it.)
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To: jcon40

I can see doing away with pennies and rounding everything up or down to the nearest nickle.


23 posted on 07/25/2018 11:47:11 PM PDT by upchuck (We're out for ourselves, we lie when necessary, and money is everything. [Laughs]. ~ CongressmanX)
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To: Olog-hai

Reminds me of the cruzieros/cruzados debacle in Brazil some time back.


24 posted on 07/25/2018 11:55:36 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Olog-hai

I read this article today saying it took 60 days work to buy toilet paper...
http://www.caraotadigital.net/economia/precios-que-espantan-para-comprar-papel-higienico-venezolanos-tienen-que-trabajar-mas-de-60-dias-foto/
It is in spanish, but my browser translated it for me...

Another I saw yesterday showed a large pile of cash along side a US $1 bill and said the two were equal... (Like $2 worth would be overflowing in a typical wheelbarrow) Guess I would have been using the cash as toilet paper if it took 60 days work otherwise.


25 posted on 07/26/2018 2:45:51 AM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: Olog-hai

Where is the Army? They have to be about ready to get rid of this mutt.


26 posted on 07/26/2018 3:29:36 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: jcon40

I stoop for pennies. Nickels, dimes, and quarters too.


27 posted on 07/26/2018 3:43:43 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: Olog-hai

This thread needs a big picture of that wild eyed socialist *itch, “Occational Cortex” or whatever her name is.


28 posted on 07/26/2018 3:50:52 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: jcon40
I still stoop for a penny - nothing better to do...

In their case, instead of making things worth more, they made $10,000 worth a buck - or probably even less....then decided to re-rate it on the "upward" scale.

29 posted on 07/26/2018 4:21:04 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: Olog-hai

Weimar not?


30 posted on 07/26/2018 4:25:33 AM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: upchuck

I keep hearing about preppers hoarding all-copper pennies over fear of a dollar collapse too. The copper-coated zinc ones seem to have not so much value.


31 posted on 07/26/2018 4:31:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: EvilCapitalist
I stoop for pennies. Nickels, dimes, and quarters too.

Yep....me too...and pre 82 pennies and pre 64 nickles, dimes and quarters go in the RIGHT pocket...everything else LEFT pocket.

Co worker found a pre 64 dime the other day in his change. I paid him a buck for it.

32 posted on 07/26/2018 4:32:38 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: aquila48
The OPEC nation’s economy has been steadily collapsing since the 2014 crash of oil prices left it unable to maintain its socialist economic system that for years provided lavish subsidies while enforcing strict price controls. …
It’s even worse than that. Al-Reuters has no criticism of the “socialist economic system” and in a twist of “logic” implies that higher oil prices were the key to maintaining it; therefore the world must endure higher oil prices.
33 posted on 07/26/2018 4:34:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

That’ll do it.


34 posted on 07/26/2018 4:36:00 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: jcon40

Currency and change are irrelevant if you pay everything with a plastic card


35 posted on 07/26/2018 4:38:35 AM PDT by bert
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To: DCBryan1
pre 64 nickles

Pre-64 nickles are the same as post-64. Current melt value is four cents.

36 posted on 07/26/2018 4:54:32 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Olog-hai

Inflation: the gift that never stops giving, to the government. The ruling elite has protected itself from rising prices by giving themselves “Cost of living adjustments” in their salaries and pensions. Rising prices allow the economists to crow about how the economy is “growing”, when all that is happening is that the numbers are increasing due to the decreased purchasing power of currency. The constantly decreasing value of savings tends to reduce a lifetime’s work effort to zero value. This makes the elderly, who are not allowed to work, more dependent on the fucking government.


37 posted on 07/26/2018 5:20:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hysterical obsession: sex tape. Last week's: tweet on iranian threat.)
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To: Olog-hai
The 6 Miracles of Socialism
38 posted on 07/26/2018 5:28:12 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: palmer

should have said war nickels. thanks for the correction.


39 posted on 07/26/2018 5:38:13 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: AzNASCARfan

It’s probably cheaper to wipe your arse with Bolivars.


40 posted on 07/26/2018 5:40:21 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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