“…Those merchants that you know are as much victims of capitalism which speculate and steal like we do”
I used the words “rambling” and “incoherent” in my previous post. Other blamed the weed in the comments. Who knows!
Personally, I think it was a problem just with delivery, what he meant to say was that the merchants are as much victims as “us” Chavistas.
Which shows that he can’t concieve that any merchant can be a Chavista.
The Devil's Excrement 
November 29, 2013 at 7:51 am
Interesting story.
My mother-in-law needed some cement for a small project at her house.
She needed 1 sack of cement however the store would only sell it in kilos @ Bs.50/kg.
That works out to Bs.2.200 for a 44 kg. sack of cement that’s price regulated at around Bs.25 per sack (the last I heard)
November 27, 2013 at 8:28 pm
This is what happens when you have no control over your own syntax.
November 27, 2013 at 4:03 pm
Ten years ago Maduro had never heard of “capitalism” let alone understand the meaning of the word. And now he’s an expert on how capitalism is bad and communism is good.
November 27, 2013 at 9:16 am
Chavistas own the major banks in Venezuela.
Does Maduro also imply that they will charge “fair” interest rates on loans, give fair exchange rates, and pay a fair interest rate on deposits.
Banks are the ultimate definition of capitalists. I doubt that Maduro will touch his buddy’s banks.
November 27, 2013 at 7:56 am
No, you guys are getting it all wrong.
You are manipulating poor Nicolas’ words according to AVN:
http://www.noticierodigital.com/2013/11/avn-yahoo-caracol-la-nacion-y-ntn24-manipulan-palabras-de-nicolas-maduro-sobre-capitalistas-que-roban/
November 27, 2013 at 12:10 am
Definite Freudian slip. That’s when people say what they really mean but they didn’t really mean to. Chavistas calling capitalists corrupt is the pot calling the kettle black.
November 26, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Ootra Madurada más!
November 26, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Venezuela: best real-time economics lesson about HCA during hyperinflation in an oil-rich country
Venezuela: Historical Cost Accounting 101 during hyperinflation in an oil-rich country
1. The real value of the Bolivar (a monetary item) is being destroyed by Historical Cost Accounting. Proof: If all monetary items (items expressed in Bolivars) in Venezuela were inflation-indexed DAILY there would be no loss of real value in these items. Like Brazil did with many monetary items (not all) from 1964 to 1994. There would, however, still be hyperinflation while the Central Bank of Venezuela keeps on creating too many Bolivars. But, there would be no destruction of real value over time in Bolivar monetary items in Venezuela. Prof Steve Hanke said this is an interesting idea.
Who is to blame: The International Accounting Standards Board.
Why? The IASB requires Venezuela to implement IAS 29 Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies in terms of the MONTHLY published CPI. It has been implemented in Venezuela since 2009.
Solution: The IASB should change IAS 29 to require DAILY INDEXING instead of the use of the monthly published CPI. This was done very successfully in Brazil and other Latin American countries in the past. The IASB simply ignores that.
2. The real value of variable real value non-monetary items (e.g. electrical appliances) is being destroyed by Nicolas Maduro´s price fixing.
Who is to blame: Nicolas Maduro and his advisers.
Solution: These variable real value non-monetary items should be valued at the parallel rate and normal forces of competitive demand and supply should be allowed to rule in the market. There would – ceteris paribus – be no loss of real value in these items.
3. The real value of constant real value non-monetary items, e.g., salaries, wages, rents, trade debtors, trade creditors, etc. is being destroyed by Historical Cost Accounting. Proof: If they were measured in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a DAILY INDEX there would be no loss of real value in these items, i.e., no loss of real value in salaries, wages, rents, trade debtors, trade creditors, etc. Like Brazil did from 1964 to 1994.
Who is to blame: The International Accounting Standards Board.
Why? The IASB requires Venezuela to implement IAS 29 Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies in terms of the MONTHLY published CPI. It has been implemented in Venezuela since 2009.
Solution: The IASB should change IAS 29 to require DAILY INDEXING instead of the use of the monthly published CPI. This was done very successfully in Brazil and other Latin American countries in the past. The IASB simply ignores what happened in Brazil in the past.
Why does the IASB not change IAS 29 to require DAILY indexing?
(i) The IASB does not understand financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a DAILY index. The IASB is too arrogant to spend the time to properly find out the benefits of Daily Indexing. Financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power at all levels of inflation and deflation was authorised by the IASB twenty four years ago in the original Framework (1989), Par. 104 (a) which states: “Financial capital maintenance can be measured in either nominal monetary units or units of constant purchasing power.”
(ii) According to Michael Stewart, the Director of Implementation Activities – the IASB´s view is that financial reporting has no effect on the economy.
(iii) The IASB is not responsible enough to take financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a DAILY INDEX seriously.
(iv) Venezuela and Belarus are relatively small economies and thus not important to the IASB. When the world economy was crippled during the 2008 financial crisis, the IASB had a special task force to deal with fair value accounting. The IASB has not even included research regarding Daily Indexing in Research projects on which preliminary work is not expected to commence until after the 2015 agenda consultation. After an agenda consultation, the IASB normally takes one year to come to conclusions regarding the consultation. They are very laid back at the IASB. The research project Financial Reporting in High Inflationary Economies is now included by the IASB in Research projects for which the timing of preliminary work has not yet been confirmed, i.e., perhaps in 2017 or later.
(v) According to Michael Stewart, the IASB is incapable of expressing a view regarding whether IAS 29 had a positive or negative effect on Zimbabwe´s hyperinflationary economy in the past since the Board has not yet had a special review of the problem while all other accountants in the world would generally agree that it is very, very obvious that IAS 29 had no positive effect on Zimbabwe´s economy like it is currently not having a positive effect on the Venezuelan economy. The IASB cannot grasp that.
November 26, 2013 at 11:49 pm
Nicolaas: Go shill your book somewhere else. Thanks in advance.
November 26, 2013 at 3:55 pm
Forget the subtleties of interpretation. Maduro is calling himself a victim? Is he for real.
Victims of Capitalism? Try Victims of Chavismo.
November 26, 2013 at 3:44 pm
I heard it as the your second alternative. It’s clear that’s what he was saying (they are as much victims of capital and capitalists who rob and speculate as we are). With all the insanity happening in Venezuela these days, even now, these tendentious “reporters” have to make shit up? Not helpful.
November 26, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Admite ser ladrón, ya es algo.