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Venezuela Has Highest and Fastest Inflation in Latin America
Short News ^ | 21 Oct 2006 | C. Arnold

Posted on 10/21/2006 8:14:51 PM PDT by Kitten Festival

According to Fedeindustrias and other business panels, Venezuela’s inflation is expected to soar to 19% by the year’s end, 7% higher than the central bank anticipated. Inflation climbed to 15.3% in Sept., the highest and fastest in Latin America.

Central bank President, Gaston Parra, blames the inflation on the government’s sharp increase in spending. “Until now, we have adopted the prudent, necessary measures to combat inflation,” says Parra.

Enrique Alvarez, an economist with IDEAGlobal, says “The message is clear: there's little policy coordination between the government and the central bank and that's where the failure to control inflation lies.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: hugoping; inflation; venezuela
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Courtesy of Hugo Chavez - who's doing to Venezuela what his pal Jimmy Carter did to the U.S.
1 posted on 10/21/2006 8:14:52 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

anyone read the 2mb pdf file titled "How to destory a country" for Zimbawae. Very similar parrallels


2 posted on 10/21/2006 8:16:53 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Kitten Festival

Yeah, I hear North Korea is a great place to raise the kids, too!


3 posted on 10/21/2006 8:18:06 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Kitten Festival

"¡Somos numero uno! ¡Somos numero uno!"


4 posted on 10/21/2006 8:18:24 PM PDT by RichInOC (HUGO: ¡¡QUE USTED DICE!!)
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To: Kitten Festival

Hugo spending on himself and buying votes...sounds like a democrap.


5 posted on 10/21/2006 8:19:00 PM PDT by eleni121 ("Show me just what Mohammed brought:: evil and inhumanity")
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To: Kitten Festival

Sorry but I must be juvenile for a moment :

'Venezuela Has Biggest and Fatest Dictator in Latin America'


6 posted on 10/21/2006 8:19:35 PM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: Kitten Festival

The Government does spend like mad...

What do you think they're doing with all that oil revenue? Banking it??!


7 posted on 10/21/2006 8:19:44 PM PDT by ivy (Ivy's ex bf)
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To: Kitten Festival
Shaking head an chuckling softly...

L

8 posted on 10/21/2006 8:20:45 PM PDT by Lurker (He just sat there, biting the heads off whippets...)
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May the curses of Pig-Faced Hugo thwart and frustrate his evil ways until he is thrown out of office. The slop of the hog pen is too good for this cretin. Venezuela deserves better than this ugly thug Hugo swine.


9 posted on 10/21/2006 8:20:58 PM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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Hmm. A similar inflation rate as when President Carter was in office.

I wonder if there is a reason for that...
10 posted on 10/21/2006 8:21:51 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: tflabo

He belongs on the top bunk over Noriega in a Georgia jail!


11 posted on 10/21/2006 8:23:02 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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Central bank President, Gaston Parra, blames the inflation on the government’s sharp increase in spending.

Well, that makes him smarter than our central bankers. Bernanke and all the other Greenspan clones think inflation is caused by economic growth, low unemployment and other good things.

12 posted on 10/21/2006 8:25:26 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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The government there is extremely dependent upon oil prices staying this high. Countries, like people, expand their spending to fit their income. Revenues go down and the crap hits the fan. A serious decline in oil prices would cause serious problems for them.


13 posted on 10/21/2006 8:25:33 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
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Yeah, I hear North Korea is a great place to raise the kids, too!

Yeah, I think Elton John said North Korea was OK but Mars wasn't the kind of place to raise your kids....in fact it's cold as hell.

14 posted on 10/21/2006 8:27:22 PM PDT by zarf
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To: Kitten Festival

He needs to be as stupid as Noriega and declare war on us.


15 posted on 10/21/2006 8:28:14 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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Courtesy of Hugo Chavez - who's doing to Venezuela what his pal Jimmy Carter did to the U.S.

I remember him mouthing off about how he was going to distribute a million or so AK-47's to his people to ward off some paranoid delusion of a US invasion.

Tell me where to send a check, Hugo. I'll help pay for it.

16 posted on 10/21/2006 8:28:41 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse (Unite)
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*sigh*....Now we'll get a couple of million Venezuelans crossing the border...
17 posted on 10/21/2006 8:50:06 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: Kitten Festival
Two losers


18 posted on 10/21/2006 9:04:10 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: Kitten Festival

19 posted on 10/21/2006 9:08:43 PM PDT by End_Clintonism_Now (MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL CLINTON!)
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To: Cobra64

That reminds me. I've been meaning to photoshop Sheehan watching porn on her computer.


20 posted on 10/21/2006 9:17:57 PM PDT by CAWats (And I will make no distinction between the terrorists and the Democrats)
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