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The great Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises, one of my heroes, famously said that government is the only institution that can take two things of value, ink and paper, and turn it into something entirely worthless.
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After a 23 day hospitalization, Mexico’s oldest woman and quite possibly the oldest women in the world has taken her last breath; she was 119.
The spokesman for...
made popular Nov 21 2009
Just what we needed. Thanks to Google Street View, a new tool in Google maps, Mexicans and the entire world can see life as we, here in Mexico, know it.
Street View, a...
made popular Nov 21 2009
The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
made popular Nov 19 2009
The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico’s top cop was supposed to help clean up the country’s long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of...
made popular Nov 18 2009
During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman.
The...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord escaped prison by hiding in a laundry truck nearly a decade ago, and his legend and fortune seem to grow with each passing day he...
made popular Nov 13 2009
In response to the business and tourism sector of Ciudad Juarez and their plea for assistance, the United Nations, via two separate representatives, has announced it...
made popular Nov 13 2009
The daily bloodshed and horrors: kidnappings, mutilations, and extortions of Ciudad Juarez discriminates against no one, everyone is a target and all are victims.
In...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests.
It is the latest move...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Mexico’s SEDENA, The National Secretary of Defense, recently announced the seizure of a quarter ton of Opium in the hills of Tamborillo, in Guadalupe y Calvo...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Dear Mr. Carlos Slim Helu,
Now that I finally have my phone and internet back I should probably apologize for unleashing the wrath and hunting/stalking skills of my...
made popular Nov 9 2009
As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City,...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Have you any idea why we are searching your vehicle? Do you know why your American visa has been canceled? Do you understand why you’re being fined $15,264 U.S....
made popular Nov 4 2009
The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic...
made popular Nov 3 2009
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It wasn’t that long ago that Tunisia starting printing, so to speak, a new 5 Dinar coin (exchange rate 1.39 Dinar: 1 Dollar). That coin featured the image of the...
made popular Apr 30 2009
Zimbabweans will be allowed to conduct business in other currencies, alongside the Zimbabwe dollar, in an effort to stem the country\’s runaway inflation.
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made popular Jan 30 2009
The following events and economic reports may influence trading in Latin American local bonds and currencies today. Bond yields and exchange rates are from the previous...
made popular Dec 10 2008
Every month, one billion rupees worth of fake Indian currency is smuggled via Kathmandu airport to Birganj and across into India.
made popular Nov 3 2008
Philippine peso gained 0.6% to 46.96 to the US dollar — its highest since Oct.2 — as investors snap up local stocks following moves by governments in the...
made popular Oct 15 2008
What rules our life in modern times? What makes us a loser? Recently a columnist has said, “If you don’t have money you are a loser”. Is it so? As the DLF IPL...
made popular Jun 2 2008
The dollar has long been the currency of choice for Central banks, tourists, smugglers, African dictators and individuals around the world as it’s liquid, easily...
made popular May 11 2007
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A worker prepares banknotes at a bank in Suining in southwest China’s Sichuan province, March 21, 2009. China is calling for a new global currency to replace the dominant dollar, showing a growing assertiveness on revamping the world economy ahead of...
