Monday morning polls
Two new polls continue to show that support for the Maduro government has never been softer. The first one is from Datanálisis. Obviously, one of the slides that jumps out...
The teleSUR email in English
Sent: Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:38:02 Subject: Re: the farewell that wasn’t If anyone still doesn’t believe how things are done around here, Telesur contracted a firm to...
The teleSUR email in Spanish
Enviados: Jueves, 25 de Septiembre 2014 15:38:02 Asunto: Re: la despedida que no fue Si alguien sigue sin creer cómo se hacen las cosas, Telesur contrató una empresa...
"¡Los fenicios!"
This video leaves me speechless … Aporrea’s take on the incident leaves me doubly speechless. Luckily, our readers are not speechless! Take it away, venelondoner: “En serio… con...
Apátrida Chronicles
In my latest piece for Transitions, I make the case for foreign intervention in Venezuela’s domestic affairs – namely, that the crime wave has gotten so out of...
Ad wars: Stir up your memories
This brought back a lot of memories. Nicely done. Happy Wednesday everyone.
The predators from Riyadh
Yesterday, French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in understanding imperfect markets such as monopolies or oligopolies. Personally, Tirole has been a...
Almost one
On the heels of Nicolás Maduro’s absurd attacks on Ricardo Hausmann and Miguel Ángel Santos, today we hear from Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff on the issue...
Graph of the day
I’m not sure what the calculations were to get at this number, but the figure is significantly lower than Monaldi’s estimate of $200 as a breakeven price. Regardless,...
Are we ready? Of course not
I don’t want to cause panic, folks, but reading stories like the one about the nurse who contracted the ebola virus in Madrid doesn’t help quell collective nerves. Heck,...
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