Dozen Eggs Cost $150 Hyperinflation Horrors Hit Socialist Utopia (military, companies, dollars)

[tinytrump]

like Cuba

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by freemkt

Raise your own chickens!

Everyone would be raising chickens if they could score $150 for a dozen of eggs.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

Everyone would be raising chickens if they could score $150 for a dozen of eggs.

Lol, very clever.

[Nepenthe]

Originally Posted by Nepenthe

Okay, here's some WaPo:

Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle

Venezuela’s democratic façade has completely crumbled

Venezuelans are so desperate they are streaming over the border to buy food

Venezuela’s death spiral is getting worse

Emaciated pets abandoned as Venezuela's recession continues

Here's some more WaPo:

In a hungry Venezuela, buying too much food can get you arrested <------- this one's hot off the presses

As hunger mounts, Venezuelans turn to trash for food

Harrowing scenes of Venezuela on the brink of collapse

In Venezuela, life is undervalued, and death is overpriced

[Snowball7]

there is a propaganda war, the west wants Maduro out.

so they can send in the predatory lenders.

non-aligned countries meeting will help a lot.

[Tall Traveler]

To Democrats, perfect situation....all too easy to control the dumb masses if they are dependent on their overlords for food to prevent starvation....Happy Socialist times in Venezuela....coming soon to the USA courtesy of 'The Progressives.'

[Nepenthe]

Originally Posted by Snowball7

...there is a propaganda war...

Wait, are you privy to some information the Washington Post isn't? Are you saying there's fabrication, obfuscation, or exaggeration in the Washington Post articles?

If so, please point out where, and how you know that.

If not, then I think the situation speaks for itself, regardless of the rest of the world's opinion of Maduro or desire to see someone else in.

Or... are you saying these problems are actually caused by the US and other western countries?

[It'sAutomatic]

When the government is basically just a hypercorrupt oil broker, the well-being of their people doesn't matter.

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

Everyone would be raising chickens if they could score $150 for a dozen of eggs.

In which case the supply of eggs would necessarily skyrocket and the price of eggs would plummet.

Funny how markets self-correct like that.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by freemkt

In which case the supply of eggs would necessarily skyrocket and the price of eggs would plummet.

Funny how markets self-correct like that.

Yes, which should have prompted the OP to question the validity of the $150 claim.