The Best-Performing Stock Market In 2013 Is Located In A South American Socialist Paradise

U.S. stocks have had an incredible year, with the S&P 500 surging a whopping 29%, something not seen since 1997.  But that's nothing compared with the year stocks have had in Venezuela. Thanks in part to annual inflation of 56%, stocks climbed 480% in the socialist-run nation. In November, President Nicholas Maduro called business owners in Venezuela "barbaric capitalist parasites" and accused them of price gouging. The business owners say failed socialist policies and restricted access to for...