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Can the Trump-Venezuela Oil Deal Survive Trump?

Why Trump’s Venezuela oil deal may be both more legal and more durable than its critics believe

Aug 31 • Noel Maurer

Enough already with the takes: here’s some real math on Venezuela’s oil deal

The numbers are surprisingly favorable to Caracas but rather harder to square with private investment

Aug 30 • Noel Maurer

There’s Oil in Them Thar Bolivarian Hills

Just not $17 trillion worth, more like $300 billion

Aug 12 • Noel Maurer

The World Where China Pays Interest

Keynes’s lost plan for Bretton Woods and the alternate history it might have created

Jul 17 • Noel Maurer

How to Fail Like Puerto Rico

Stagnation at Italian living standards is actually a phenomenal economic success

Mar 26 • Noel Maurer

Our Cuban Colony, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Dollar Diplomacy

That time we overthrew a government because it refused to stiff our bankers

Mar 13 • Noel Maurer

T̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ Our Cuban Colony, Part IIIa: American Cuba

Venecuba was never going to be a real country, and nobody even considered turning Cuba into the 16th republic of the USSR, but the place genuinely could…

Mar 11 • Noel Maurer

Their Cuban Colony, Part II: Soviet Cuba

Last week Caracas, next time Washington

Feb 26 • Noel Maurer

Their Cuban colony, Part I: Venecuba

Let’s start with Caracas. Moscow and Washington to follow

Feb 17 • Noel Maurer

Europe’s Dependence on America Is a Choice

And it’s one Europe can afford to undo

Jan 30 • Noel Maurer

Exxon, Shell, and the Math of Venezuelan Oil

Venezuela’s taxes break its oil economics

Jan 14 • Noel Maurer

We wish to acknowledge that we gather together today on lands that have been guarded and stewarded through many decades by the shareholders and…

Jan 7 • Noel Maurer

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