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Are you just paying the minimum? You need to get more aggressive with those payments.

There's no good answer, they thought the job was easier than it was and they'd be freeing up a few hundred billion dollars a year that they believed rightly belonged to their country. I'm sure in hindsight they'd do things differently.

The Saudis as you say did things the smart way, they started out with a 50/50 profit split with American companies and over time used their profits to take more control and increase taxes and eventually own the entire industry and diversify profits. That process did take 50 years though and Venezuela's government wanted fast results because they weren't an authoritarian regime like the Saudis and needed to win the next election.

Although Maduro fucked the economy so badly that he ended up turning Venezuela into a sham democracy and seizing authoritarian power because there was no chance of him winning a fair election. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Data taken from my Garmin Fenix 6. Put into Excel.

Hearts of Iron players: "Hold my beer!"

Wtf happened I 2016 to venezuala?

> Correlation=Causation; poors can't drive.

also Correlation=Causation, road accidents make people poor.

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You’re right dude

Imagine if everyone in the country benefitted from oil production instead of just a handful of oil executives and shareholders. That would be TERRIBLE

As others have noted, proved reserves (in the US) should not be used this way. They are a financial definition used to support loans for drilling. You can increase proven reserves by drilling more test wells. USGS estimate of oil reserves for those who are curious: https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/usgs-announces-largest-continuous-oil-assessment-texas-and-new-mexico

My guess is USSR is one of them

Good lord, people are... I have no words...

All of the businesses above the average line serve the worst, most unhealthy, tasteless and expensive food.

But one of the most beautiful.

What does "average value" of GDP mean?

It appears you age like a fine wine. Also, these are Covid years. Surely that affected your industry.

Emissions controls are also bound to become stricter, which increases prices.

Hopefully the rise in renewables will clear India's air quality. Would've been nice if the farmer's bill had passed. We'd have fewer morons burning crop stubble to plant rice in a hurry.

I mean, not being allowed to trade doesn't help their economy either.

More like if you aren't pumping and selling it someone else are going to do it later.

100%. I work at a hospital as a Sterile Processing Tech III and my base pay is $19.56. I majored in Anthropology and would not have any kind of related job had I gotten my bachelor's.

Do both, hedge your bets, get a trade straight out of high school, live life, find your story, complete college with a focus and tenacity learned from your trade. Enjoy life.

I also just want to call this out as I do on related posts.

After defaulting on student loans for 9 months, the US Dept of Edu buys them from Sallie Mae (large lender) and puts on huge amounts of interest. If you still default, they sell it to collections agencies, ones that don't give a shit about your income, that add even more interest.

The US will never have free upper education because poor people borrowing money is profitable to them.

And before anyone gets shitty about it being my own fault, I knew nothing about finance and never had money growing up. When it was offered, I took it. They didn't ask me to talk to anyone about it and actually wanted me to get my mom to take out a loan for me. I still owe 50k on 24k worth of loans from 2007 and earlier.

A dot in Belgium ?, what comic have you read ?

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