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It wasn’t long ago that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s decision to nationalize state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) resulted in a failed coup that very nearly cost him his post.

Now, Chavez’s aggressive economic policies are again being called into question, this time as the country slides into what could be a protracted period of stagflation, which is …

Why do I think the dollar will be toast? Because Congress is planning to spend at least one trillion dollars to (ahem) “stimulate” the economy.

Yes, if you spend a trillion dollars, it’ll stimulate something. But where will the money come from? How does the U.S. government plan to raise the money? Do you have a spare trillion dollars lying around, brothers and sisters?

I don’t know about you, but to me, a trillion bucks is a lot of money. It’s almost twice the national defense budget, which is a really big number in its own right. For a trillion bucks, the Navy could buy something like 133 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. Except at current construction rates, it would take 500 years to build all of them. So just on the numbers alone, the U.S. is about to do something very, very strange in its historical arc.

Speaking of which,

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by Edward Hugh: BarcelonaRussia's inflation rate remained tantalisingly frozen at its highest in more than five years in June as energy and food prices continued to move on upwards. Russian consumer prices were up 15.1 percent from a year ago - matching the rate in May- according to data released earlier this week by the Federal Statistics Service.As a result he Russian government is struggling to bring inflation down towards it's 10.5 percent target after increased income from rising global energy prices boosted domestic demand and made possible 300 billion rubles ($13 billion) of extra government spending on items like pensions and state wages in the run up to last December's elections. The result has been a massive surge in consumer spending and construction activity which has pushed the rate of expansion in the Russian economy above its long ...

Russia's inflation rate remained tantalisingly frozen at its highest in more than five years in June as energy and food prices continued to move on upwards. Russian consumer prices were up 15.1 percent from a year ago - matching the rate in May- according to data released earlier this week by the Federal Statistics Service.As a result he Russian government is struggling to bring inflation down towards it's 10.5 percent target after increased income from rising global energy prices boosted domestic demand and made possible 300 billion rubles ($13 billion) of extra government spending on items like pensions and state wages in the run up to last December's elections. The result has been a massive surge in consumer spending and construction activity which has pushed the rate of expansion in the Russian economy above its long term "comfort" capacity level.

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