{"id":13918,"date":"2016-04-15T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13918"},"modified":"2016-04-15T00:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T04:50:19","slug":"the-ingenious-ways-that-venezuelans-are-getting-around-price-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-ingenious-ways-that-venezuelans-are-getting-around-price-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ingenious Ways That Venezuelans Are Getting Around Price Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/041516_0447_TheIngeniou1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an article about the similarities between today&#8217;s Venezuela and Zimbabwe of the 2000s, The Economist took a look at some of the creative ways that people are getting around price controls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rice might be price controlled. But add a bit of garlic to it and now its garlic rice and nobody thought to put price controls on that.<\/li>\n<li>Sell one roll of toilet paper to a consumer and you have to sell it for the official price. Sell a thousand rolls of toilet paper to a consumer and it&#8217;s now a business to business sale, which doesn&#8217;t have to comply with price controls.<\/li>\n<li>Transporting goods that will be sold for a pittance in Venezuela? Just drive across the border to Columbia after bribing the poorly paid customs officers, and sell goods for the true price there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article has more details. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/americas\/21695934-venezuela-today-looks-zimbabwe-15-years-ago-spot-difference?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/americas\/21695934-venezuela-today-looks-zimbabwe-15-years-ago-spot-difference?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article about the similarities between today&#8217;s Venezuela and Zimbabwe of the 2000s, The Economist took a look at some of the creative ways that people are getting around price controls: Rice might be price controlled. But add a bit of garlic to it and now its garlic rice and nobody thought to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/041516_0447_TheIngeniou1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13923,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions\/13923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}