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tisdag 20 november 2007
'Och jorden skälvde' i verkligheten - igen
Som tidigare nämnt verkar Johan Norbergs serie om Atlas Shrugged i verkligheten ligga på is, men annars hade nog rapporteringen om Venezuela nämnts där. Utdrag ur The Guardian:
Welcome to Venezuela, a booming economy with a difference. Food shortages are plaguing the country at the same time that oil revenues are driving a spending splurge on imported luxury goods, prompting criticism of President Hugo Chávez's socialist policies.
When supplies do arrive long queues form instantly. Purchases are rationed and hands are stamped to prevent cheating. The sight of a milk truck reportedly prompted a near-riot last week.
Government price controls on staple foods are so low that producers cannot make a profit, they say, and farms and businesses hesitate to invest in crops or machinery, or stockpile inventories, for fear of expropriations.
The government says that shortages are exaggerated by the media and that they reflect greater spending power by the poor thanks to social programmes which have directed oil revenues into the slums.
Welcome to Venezuela, a booming economy with a difference. Food shortages are plaguing the country at the same time that oil revenues are driving a spending splurge on imported luxury goods, prompting criticism of President Hugo Chávez's socialist policies.
When supplies do arrive long queues form instantly. Purchases are rationed and hands are stamped to prevent cheating. The sight of a milk truck reportedly prompted a near-riot last week.
Government price controls on staple foods are so low that producers cannot make a profit, they say, and farms and businesses hesitate to invest in crops or machinery, or stockpile inventories, for fear of expropriations.
The government says that shortages are exaggerated by the media and that they reflect greater spending power by the poor thanks to social programmes which have directed oil revenues into the slums.
fredag 7 september 2007
Planekonomins misslyckande, igen
International Herald Tribune skriver om Iran och Venezuela, 82:a respektive 135:a (av 141 länder), på listan över världens mest ofria ekonomier (pdf, sid 138 - via Munkhammar):
Inflation:
"Rents are soaring, inflation has been hovering around 17 percent and 10 million Iranians live below the poverty line."
"Annual inflation has risen to 16 percent, the highest in Latin America, as Chávez tripled government spending in four years."
Resultat av prisreform:
"One of [Ahmadinejad's] first edicts was to order banks to lower interest rates to 12 percent, from as high as 17 percent. The order, like others, backfired, making loans harder to come by."
"Contreras called the government-set prices on many products "fantasy prices" that are below production costs. Milk, chicken, coffee and flour have disappeared from store shelves in Caracas at times this year.
In another case, Ahmadinejad decided that the price of cement was too high, so he ordered it reduced. Rashadi, the economist, said the decree frightened away investors who had planned to build new cement factories around the country."
Självsynen hos ledaren:
"There is an honorable butcher in our neighborhood who is aware of all the problems of the people," Ahmadinejad said, "and I also get important economic information from him."
"'It's like our director of marketing, our director of sales, our director of manufacturing is President Chávez,' said Edgar Contreras, who runs international operations at Molinos Nacionales, a Caracas-based food manufacturer that employs 1,500 people. 'We can't go on like this.'"
Bonus på samma ämne:
Göran Persson: "Jag kan gå Drottninggatan fram och läsa av opinionen på en halv procent när."
Vill man läsa vad Aftonbladet har att säga om Chávez finns det en krönika av John Pilger här och en av Åsa Linderborg här.
Och här är en Chávez-vänlig film (81 minuter) om vad som hände när han avsattes och tog tillbaka makten:
Inflation:
"Rents are soaring, inflation has been hovering around 17 percent and 10 million Iranians live below the poverty line."
"Annual inflation has risen to 16 percent, the highest in Latin America, as Chávez tripled government spending in four years."
Resultat av prisreform:
"One of [Ahmadinejad's] first edicts was to order banks to lower interest rates to 12 percent, from as high as 17 percent. The order, like others, backfired, making loans harder to come by."
"Contreras called the government-set prices on many products "fantasy prices" that are below production costs. Milk, chicken, coffee and flour have disappeared from store shelves in Caracas at times this year.
In another case, Ahmadinejad decided that the price of cement was too high, so he ordered it reduced. Rashadi, the economist, said the decree frightened away investors who had planned to build new cement factories around the country."
Självsynen hos ledaren:
"There is an honorable butcher in our neighborhood who is aware of all the problems of the people," Ahmadinejad said, "and I also get important economic information from him."
"'It's like our director of marketing, our director of sales, our director of manufacturing is President Chávez,' said Edgar Contreras, who runs international operations at Molinos Nacionales, a Caracas-based food manufacturer that employs 1,500 people. 'We can't go on like this.'"
Bonus på samma ämne:
Göran Persson: "Jag kan gå Drottninggatan fram och läsa av opinionen på en halv procent när."
Vill man läsa vad Aftonbladet har att säga om Chávez finns det en krönika av John Pilger här och en av Åsa Linderborg här.
Och här är en Chávez-vänlig film (81 minuter) om vad som hände när han avsattes och tog tillbaka makten:
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