January 31, 2009

Poll Chart: Too Much Noise, Not Enough Signal

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Quico says: You asked for it, you got it: Click to expand A few things to note: IVAD is more and more "the government pollster." A...

Stagflation's just another word for Catch-22

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Quico says: One vital question that's getting virtually no attention is what the correct policy response would be to the economic crisi...
January 30, 2009

PDVSA Maula

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Quico says: This Dow Jones wire story, by-lined Raúl Gallegos, makes for compelling reading. The entire thing is really quite stunning, bu...

Anything is possible in a country...

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...where even the bagres are climbers.
January 29, 2009

Huffo-ing and puffing

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Quico says: The Parable of the Leaves is up on Huffo. Take a minute to write a comment over there, would you?

EIA Settles the Matter

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Quico says: The US Department of Energy's well regarded Energy Information Administration has just put out its latest Country Analysis ...
January 28, 2009

Two nuggets of truth from my inbox

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Juan Cristobal says: - Excerpts from some email conversations I had yesterday. --------------- From: Juan Cristobal To: My friend Roger , r...
January 27, 2009

The elevator speech

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Juan Cristobal says: Imagine you're working to get someone elected and you run into an undecided voter in an elevator. You have thirty...

Reading the Referendum Tea Leaves

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Quico says: I haven't been writing much about the upcoming referendum on abolishing term limits, for a couple of reasons. The whole th...
January 26, 2009

The Parable of the Leaves

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[coming soon on Huffo... ] Quico says: Talk about Venezuela these days and people assume the argument splits neatly between two camps: nut...
January 23, 2009

51 years on from that one, fleeting, dizzying flash of no-bullshit national unity

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Quico says: If I told you that, in the wake of a sham referendum aimed at keeping the president in power forever, Venezuelans of all kind...
January 21, 2009

Minc(i)ed Facts

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Quico says: A couple of readers have pointed me to this remarkable Information Ministry press release, which one of them surmises must be...
January 20, 2009

Any questions?

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Obama says: "To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that you...

No. 1 reason why term limits are a good thing

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Six of one, half a dozen of the other

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Quico says: Yesterday's post was one I'd been meaning to get off my chest for a long time. It felt good to put it out there. Still...
January 19, 2009

For Chávez, Obama = Bush

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Quico says: My new post is up on The Huffington Post.
January 18, 2009

The Great "Excess Reserves" Swindle

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Quico says: The idea that the Central Bank's International Reserves are a kind of "rainy day fund" where the government puts ...
January 16, 2009

Hey, what's one little Order of Magnitude between friends?

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Quico says: Hat tip to Miguel for remembering that, at one point in 2006, the government was boasting that the "Bolívar Fuerte" ...
January 15, 2009

The $40 Billion Hole

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Quico says: The perceptive among you will have noticed that I haven't been blogging about next month's Infinite Reelection Referend...
January 14, 2009

FIEM Fatale

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Quico says: The thing that makes chavismo's unreadiness for the looming economic shitstorm (a.k.a. Hurricane Feces) genuinely unforgi...
January 13, 2009

The opposition's Gaza non-strategy

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Juan Cristobal says: Over the years, we've grown used to Chavez hurling insults at us for things real and imaginary. We've gone fro...