Currency expert Steve Hanke — a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University — has long advocated dollarization as a way for countries like Argentina and Venezuela to dramatically reduce inflation almost immediately. My friend Joachim Bamrud writes for Latinvex about how Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama are dollarized economies and are the […]
Orlando Avendano writes for PanAm Post and discusses how socialism doomed Venezuela and will do the same in Nicaragua. In Venezuela, at least four processes of dialogue have taken place between the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro and the representatives of the Venezuelan official opposition in the last four years. All in vain. Unfruitful. Small victories […]
Panama is a tiny slip of land with a surprisingly giant place in the natural, commercial, and human history of the Western Hemisphere. Now, it hopes to enlarge its influence in film and TV, addressing its own complicated history with notable projects while spotlighting the best of a Spanish-language industry that reaches three continents. I […]
The first shipment of liquefied natural gas from Dominion Energy’s Cove Point LNG export terminal on the U.S. East Coast has completed its transit of the Expanded Panama Canal as it heads for Japan. The Dominion Cove Point terminal in Maryland is the second U.S. LNG export terminal to come online after Cheniere’s Sabine Pass […]
The North Shore charger talks about the wave that made the cover of SURFER Vol. 59 #3 The photo above of Nathan Florence backdooring a green-lit cavern landed on Pg.1 of SURFER magazine’s newest issue. Staff photographer Ryan “Chachi” Craig captured it while on a hopeful strike mission to Panama with Florence, Billy Kemper and […]
Dealt documentary (Amazon, other options) directed by Luke Korem. This absolutely blew my mind, and I don’t want to spoil it with description. Trust me and watch the short trailer above. Truly amazing. I can’t remember the last time I finished a documentary, only to want to immediately watch it again. I also can’t remember a […]
Three liquefied natural gas tankers sailed through the Panama Canal on the same day this week, marking a first for the newly expanded waterway and highlighting the booming global gas trade. All three ships — Gaslog Hong Kong, Gaslog Gibraltar and Clean Ocean — entered the canal on a staggered basis from the Pacific side […]
My friends Rafael Museri and Daniel Rudasevski have hit the big time with hard work and expertly reading this market for travelers. Imagine traveling the world, surfing the waves of unspoilt beaches, meeting new people – and still being able to work remotely with unwavering Wi-Fi, in a community of like-minded wanderers and digital nomads. All […]
Latinvex reports on the economies of Latin America and guess who is the overall winner – PANAMA!!! Despite business-friendly governments in Latin America’s top three economies of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, they will be among the top laggards in Latin America GDP growth this year, according to a Latinvex analysis of new estimates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Only economic […]
This in from Ozy.com on their experience eating street food in Panama. While I also like the traditional Pescado Entero, I know of many more place that I would go to for great fish, namely on most of the beaches of Panama. Peach Fuzz International has nothing to do with peaches and everything to do […]