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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 10:57 AM Mar 2015

legacy of chavez. world's most miserable economy

At 78.5 percent, the estimated CPI inflation rate in back-to-back, most-miserable Venezuela more than quadruples Ukraine's inflation rate. The dire shortage of basic goods in Venezuela last week prompted neighboring Trinidad & Tobago to offer a tissue paper-for-oil swap.

ttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-02/the-15-most-miserable-economies-in-the-world


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legacy of chavez. world's most miserable economy (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Mar 2015 OP
At this rate pretty soon they'll be able to COLGATE4 Mar 2015 #1
k uhnope Mar 2015 #2

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
1. At this rate pretty soon they'll be able to
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 02:42 PM
Mar 2015

use the currency for tissue (or toilet) paper, thus killing 2 birds with one stone.

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