Maya Forstater Retweeted Ricardo Hausmann
In Venezuela in 2012 the minimum wage (also the median wage) could buy you several dozen eggs or 15,000 calories of cheapest starch in a day. Now it is two eggs or 900 calories https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/06/19/621570477/the-measure-of-a-tragedy?t=1533631886085 …https://twitter.com/ricardo_hausman/status/1009237227061284864 …
Maya Forstater added,
Ricardo Hausmann @ricardo_hausman
How do you paint reality with numbers? @NPR asked me to explain how my team and I use numbers to make sense of the Venezuelan catastrophe. How many calories can you buy with a day’s work? Here is a 10 minute podcast on this sad subject. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-indicator-from-planet-money/id1320118593?mt=2&i=1000414149386 …
1:59 AM - 7 Aug 2018
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