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No Agreement on OPEC Meeting After Venezuela Meets With Saudi Arabia
February 9th, 2016
The prospects for an emergency OPEC meeting to initiate coordinated production cuts took a hit this weekend. Venezuela’s oil minister Eulogio del Pino flew to Riyadh to meet with Saudi officials, which followed a recent trip to Moscow to ...
Oil Trades Near $31 After Saudi-Venezuela Talks as Bets Increase
February 8th, 2016
Al-Naimi speaks with counterpart about other producer meetings Vitol CEO says crude to stay between $40 and $60 for 10 years Oil traded near $31 a barrel after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela met to discuss cooperating to stabilize the ...
Venezuelans Escape Currency Collapse with Bitcoin
January 11th, 2016
Cryptocurrency Users Double in One Year “Bitcoin adoption in Venezuela will explode any time now,” one early cryptocurrency adopter in the South American nation confidently predicts. Bitcoin experts argue that the worse an economy is, the more interest there ...
Venezuela will push for an oil price band at South American and Arab nations meeting
November 5th, 2015
Venezuela to push for oil price bands at Arab nations meeting Venezuela will push for an oil price band proposal at an upcoming summit in Saudi Arabia between South American and Arab nations, President Nicolas Maduro said. OPEC price ...
Venezuela ordered to pay $1.6 billion to Exxon
October 10th, 2014
International arbitration panel rules against South American nation in oil project complaint. An international arbitration panel has ordered Venezuela’s socialist government to pay $1.6 billion to ExxonMobil for the seizure of a major oil project in the South American ...
Venezuelan Officers involved in Colombian Cocaine Traffic
July 29th, 2014
The head of Venezuelan military intelligence was involved on the payroll of a Colombian drug lord, invested his own money in drug shipments and personally coordinated the shipment of thousands of kilograms of cocaine, according to prosecutors in Miami ...
Lufthansa says to cut Venezuela flights amid forex dispute
July 15th, 2014
German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) said on Monday it will reduce service to Venezuela by 40 percent starting next month amid an ongoing dispute about repatriation of revenue from ticket sales. Carriers, including American Airlines, Delta and United, have in ...
Profits Vanish in Venezuela After Currency Devaluation
July 9th, 2014
Brink’s, the armored car company, could see about $400 million in revenue disappear this year from its operations in this country. Procter & Gamble announced a write-down of $275 million on its Venezuela business. American Airlines and Delta Air ...
The emerging evidence of hyperinflation
October 15th, 2020
Note: all references to inflation are of the quantity of money and not to the effect on prices unless otherwise indicated. In last week’s article I showed why empirical evidence of fiat money collapses are relevant to monetary ...
Doubling down on failed policies with central bank digital currencies
August 27th, 2020
Many central banks are researching retail digital currencies, which if implemented, would allow them to issue a new currency directly to the public, managed on a centralised ledger bypassing commercial banks. While there is an element of feeling the ...