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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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In this episode, we explore the dramatic downfall of a once-wealthy nation that is now one of the poorest: Venezuela. How does a country with vast natural resources find itself in such dire straits? We delve into the devastating effects of misguided economic policies, rampant corruption, and the political missteps that led to hyperinflation, mass poverty, and the collapse of basic services. Join us as we examine how Venezuela’s leaders, blinded by ideology and short-term gains, destroyed a thriving economy, and what lessons this holds for the rest of the world.
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1:14.7 | How you doing there? It is podcast time. And today we are going to look at the case of a country |
1:21.6 | that was once quite wealthy and is now impoverished. We're going to look at how countries go bad, |
1:29.1 | how good countries actually can go bad, |
1:31.6 | how countries with enormous resources can end up incredibly poor. |
1:36.2 | Why? |
1:37.0 | Because the economic policy pursued by the government is so abject, |
1:41.4 | so devoid of any economic basis, and so crippling in its impact on the people |
1:49.6 | of that country. That country, John, is Venezuela. I know it's a long way away. You probably, |
1:55.5 | if we were to do a podcast from down there, it would be bird song that you would be interested |
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