A cura di @Festina Lente.

Dal 2015 Tim Worstall su Forbes si “congratula” con la rivoluzione bolivariana in Venezuela per i suoi successi maggiori. Di seguito una lunga carrellata (probabilmente incompleta) dei suoi suoi articoli di congratulazione, che ripercorrono la storia economica del più recente bolivarianismo madurense.

– Venezuela’s Minimum Wage Is Now $20 A Month (7 marzo 2015)

– 200% Inflation Is An Achievement (11 aprile)

– Monthly Minimum Wage Now Below Seattle’s Hourly Minimum (28 agosto)

– The Country With No Beer (4 agosto)

– Venezuela’s Inflation Rate Is 808% (28 agosto)

– Venezuela’s Maduro Announces The Two-Day Work Week (27 aprile)

– Venezuela Cannot Afford To Pay For Its Own Money (28 aprile)

– Venezuela Is Now The Country With No Beer (30 aprile 2016)

– Venezuela’s Minimum Wage Rises To $13.50 A Month (2 maggio)

– Bolivar Notes Are Now Worth Less Than It Costs To Print Them (4 maggio)

– At Least Venezuela Hasn’t Run Out Of Tear Gas Yet (14 maggio)

– Venezuela’s Maduro Now Blames Everyone But Himself (15 maggio)

– Venezuela Is Now The Country With No Coke (21 maggio)

– Now Even Lufthansa Won’t Fly To Venezuela (30 maggio)

– Now The Chavistas Riot For Food In Venezuela (3 giugno)

– Maduro Introduces Food Fascism (8 giugno)

– Venezuela Now Faces Imminent Famine (22 giugno)

– Venezuela Now Owns A Toilet Paper Plan (12 luglio)

– Now The Army Runs Venezuela’s Food System (13 luglio)

– 35,000 Venezuelans Leave The Country To Feed Themselves (17 luglio)

– IMF Predicts Inflation Of 1,600% In 2017 (19 luglio)

– Venezuela Has Food Riots Now (21 giugno)

– Venezuela Brings Back Agricultural Slavery (29 luglio)

– Venezuela’s Maduro Puts His Faith In The Jesus Christ Of Economics (13 agosto)

– Venezuela’s Babies Now Sleep In Cardboard Boxes (22 settembre)

– Finally A Sensible Economic Policy In Venezuela (15 ottobre)

– Venezuela Approaches The Hypervelocity Of Money (19 ottobre)

– For Nearly Bankrupting Venezuela’s Monopoly Oil Company (21 ottobre)

– Venezuela Is Now 4th And Rising On A World Bank List (26 ottobre)

– Farming Doesn’t Work In Venezuela Anymore (1 novembre)

– Venezuelans Now Weigh Money, Not Count It (3 novembre)

– Venezuela’s Exchange Rate Falls 45% In One Month (25 novembre)

– Venezuela’s Largest Banknote Is Now Worth 2 US Cents (3 dicembre)

– Venezuelan Women Sell Their Hair To Buy Medicine Now (6 dicembre)

– Now The Venezuelan Government Steals The Childrens’ Toys (10 dicembre)

– Venezuela Can’t Even Withdraw The 2 Cent Bill Effectively (16 dicembre)

– Now For Venezuela’s Economic Conspiracy Theories (17 dicembre)

– The 100 Bolivar Note Lives On (18 dicembre)

– The Food Business Corrupts Venezuela’s Armed Forces (31 dicembre)

– Venezuela Now Has To Import Oil From The US (20 settembre)

– Venezuela’s Minimum Wage Rises To $12. A Month (9 gennaio)

– Now Maybe Real US Sanctions, Not The Claimed Fake Ones (23 gennaio)

– Bitcoin Miners Arrested For Stealing Free Electricity (27 gennaio)

– Venezuela Sees The Old Child Killing Diseases Back (10 febbraio)

– Banning A TV Station Is Protecting Venezuela’s Free Speech (16 febbraio)

– Venezuela Discovers The Perfect Weight Loss Diet (22 febbraio)

– Venezuela’s Breakfast Now Costs More Than A Day’s Work (3 marzo)

– Venezuela Caught Up With North Korea (5 marzo)

– Brownies Are Now Illegal In Venezuela (17 marzo)

– Venezuela’s Happiness Falls Most Globally (20 marzo)

– Venezuela Stops Publishing Money Supply Data (23 marzo)

– Oil Rich Venezuela Is Running Out Of Gasoline (24 marzo)

– Venezuela Declares Humanitarian Crisis (25 marzo)

Bonus:

– Amazingly, Maduro Is Going To Make The Venezuelan Economy Even Worse. Yes, Worse (maggio 2015)

– Unconvincing Explanations For The Disaster In Venezuela That Is Bolivarian Socialism (luglio 2016)

– Entirely Correct About Bolivarian Socialism – Venezuela Should Default (dicembre 2016)

– The VP’s A Drug Trafficker? Venezuela’s Problems Are All The Other People In Government (Febbraio 2017)

– Venezuela’s Response To Inflation – Just Confiscate All The Money (dicembre 2016)