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Venezuela’s Bizarre System of Exchange Rates

01/07/2016 Mises Wire Emiliana Disilvestro David Howden

Many people know that the Venezuelan economy is subject to byzantine price controls and other regulations. But on top of it all is a highly complex, bureaucratic, and damaging system of government-controlled monetary exchange rates.

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