Good afternoon economists, please stop claiming that Venezuela is in trouble. The news is making their situation seem much worse than it really is. There is no evidence to support Venezuela being in trouble, and their economy is perfectly fine.

The first thing people usually point out is Venezula’s incredibly high inflation rate. Most people apparently don’t realize that inflation remains constant in the long run, and the only thing that matters is price level. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m totally fine with spending thousands of dollars for a candy bar as long as I’m getting paid lots more. Also, just take a look at the Phillips Curve. The Phillips Curve shows the relationship between inflation and unemployment, which is especially useful when talking about Venezuela’s high inflation rate. The Phillips Curve says that high inflation correlates with low unemployment, which means that Venezuela is at practically 0% unemployment (almost impossible for most countries). Also what’s the worst that could happen if Venezuela continues with super high inflation? Venezuela obtains the world record for highest inflation, beating Zimbabwe’s record? I don’t see a problem here.

The next “problem” people think Venezuela has is its leadership. Many claim that Maduro is a horrible leader, but they forget about the past. The United States has had a lot of arguably bad presidents, but we are still thriving debt and all. Politics is slow unlike the pure speed of economics.

Another thing people point out is how poor Venezuela is. Admittedly, Venezuela isn’t super wealthy, and they could use some help. This is where the FOREX market comes in (Foreign Exchange Market if you’re not an enlightened economist like myself). The FOREX graphs relate the value of the currencies of two nations, and can help us fix Venezuela’s problem. When more people purchase the goods of a nation, the value of that nation’s currency is increased due to an increase in demand for that nation’s currency. Of course this would devalue the other nation’s currency since they’re supplying more, but it’s not an issue. All we need to do to make Venezuela wealthy is for a nation we don’t care about (maybe Mexico, Britain, or Germany (ok probably Germany since they’re used to taking L’s in the world wars.)), and have them purchase tons of Venezuelan goods. The act of purchasing Venezuelan goods increases the value of the bolivar (Venezuela’s currency), and decreases the value of a currency that isn’t the USD. This would make Venezuela extremely wealthy, and they would no longer have a problem of being poor.

The graphs don’t lie; Venezuela is perfectly fine.