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Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Crack-Up Boom on its Way to Outer Space
Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Crack-Up Boom on its Way to Outer Space Why Stock Markets Are Not an Indicator of the Economy In a free unhampered market economy based on a sound monetary system – this is to say a market-chosen monetary system with a free banking industry and no central planning institution that is manipulating interest rates and […]
Amid “US Coup”, Venezuela Takes Another $5 Billion Loan From China
Amid “US Coup”, Venezuela Takes Another $5 Billion Loan From China The people of Venezuela can rejoice… not so fast. Amid paranoid-sounding (though not unlikely) rantings about US-created coups (and blaming ‘economic’ war for his nation’s Socialist utopia hyperinflation), it appears President Maduro just got another life-line (or more rope to hang himself). After begging China’s leader […]
MAYBE OBAMA’S SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA ARE NOT REALLY ABOUT HIS “DEEP CONCERN” OVER SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL RIGHTS
MAYBE OBAMA’S SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA ARE NOT REALLY ABOUT HIS “DEEP CONCERN” OVER SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL RIGHTS The White House on Monday announced the imposition of new sanctions on various Venezuelan officials, pronouncing itself “deeply concerned by the Venezuelan government’s efforts to escalate intimidation of its political opponents”: deeply concerned. President Obama also, reportedly with a straight face, officially declared that Venezuela poses “an extraordinary […]
Venezuela To Start Fingerprinting Supermarket Shoppers
Venezuela To Start Fingerprinting Supermarket Shoppers Back in August, when we wrote about the latest instance of trouble in Maduro’s socialist paradise, we cautioned that as a result of the economic collapse in the Latin American nation (and this was even before the plunge in crude made the “paradise” into the 9th circle of hell), Venezuelans soon may […]
Oil Price Crash: Top 5 At-Risk Countries
Oil Price Crash: Top 5 At-Risk Countries Since June 2014, global oil prices have dropped by more than 50%. The drop could strongly affect the economic and political stability of these five oil exporting countries. Oil prices make winners and losers. In general, oil importers will gain from low prices, while most oil exporters will […]
Washington Works To Overthrow Argentine Government
Washington Works To Overthrow Argentine Government The Strategic Culture Foundation has published Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya’s report on the effort underway by Washington and Argentine intelligence agents to overthrow the reformist president of Argentina. Washington cannot tolerate reformist governments in Central and South America. For example, Washington’s interferences in Honduras and overthrow of reformist governments are […]
The Overt Media War Against the Maduro Government
The Overt Media War Against the Maduro Government The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. – Malcolm X On January 30, 2015, El Universal, one of the big […]
Thousands march against Venezuelan president
Thousands march against Venezuelan president Protesters rally against sky-high inflation and shortages of food in Caracas, demanding President Nicolas Maduro resign. Thousands of protesters have marched in the Venezuelan capital banging pots and pans over shortages of food and demanding an end to President Nicolas Maduro’s term in office. Demonstrators poured on to the streets […]
Oil Falls as Goldman Cuts Outlook While Venezuela Seeks Recovery
Oil Falls as Goldman Cuts Outlook While Venezuela Seeks Recovery Oil fell to the lowest level in more than 5 1/2 years as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reduced its price forecasts andVenezuela called on OPEC producers to work together to spur a recovery. Futures slid as much as 3.3 percent in London after a seventh weekly […]
Venezuela, Iran Leaders Join to ‘Neutralize Schemes Against OPEC and Stabilize Oil Price’
Venezuela, Iran Leaders Join to ‘Neutralize Schemes Against OPEC and Stabilize Oil Price’ TEHRAN, Iran—Iran and Venezuela vowed Saturday to work together to stabilize falling global oil prices as Iran’s supreme leader accused “enemies” of using crude prices as a political weapon. With Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by his side, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged OPEC members to […]
China to invest $20bn in struggling Venezuela
China to invest $20bn in struggling Venezuela China has agreed to invest more than $20bn in economic, social, and oil-related projects in Venezuela, as the country struggles from a financial crisis brought on from falling oil prices. President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday he was seeking to strengthen ties with Chinese banks after meeting Chinese […]
New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship
New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship Just before the holidays, Barack Obama signed a new law punishing Venezuela’s leaders for human rights violations — for persecution and imprisonment of union leaders, journalists and protesters, and for a general disregard for the law. “The United States,” proclaimed the sanctions, “supports the people of Venezuela in their efforts to […]
“Now There’s Not Even Soap” Maduro Heads To China To ‘Save’ Socialist Utopia Venezuela | Zero Hedge
“Now There’s Not Even Soap” Maduro Heads To China To ‘Save’ Socialist Utopia Venezuela | Zero Hedge. Social media is awash with striking images of #EmptyShelvesInVenezuela (#AnaquelesVaciosEnVenezuela) as the evaporation of basic human staples such as toilet paper has now been hyperinflated to total chaos at warehouses and supermarkets. As President Maduro decries the loss of […]
Low Oil Prices Pushing Venezuela Towards Default
Low Oil Prices Pushing Venezuela Towards Default. Low oil prices are putting major oil producers in a squeeze. The Russian central bank has been forced to cough up foreign exchange in order to defend itself from a currency crisis. But it may be Venezuela that is the least prepared and most in danger of an economic […]
