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Brazil and the limits of the possible
Written by Luciano Sobral
Meet Marina Silva. A former senator and minister of the environment for the ruling party, PT (the Brazilian Workers Party), in 2009 she left to joing the PV, Brazil’s small green party. Next year she finished third in the presidential race, with almost 20 million votes – an astonishing feat […]
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Luciano Sobral
Economist based in São Paulo, Brazil, been working in financial markets for 11 years. Avid reader & writer; big fan of Belgian beer, Argentinian jazz, Ethiopian coffee and the joys of a peaceful and globalized world.
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Brazil: Free Trade for Countries That Can’t Be Bothered to Do It*
Written by Luciano Sobral
Free trade in Brazil has an inglorious past and an uncertain future. World Bank data shows that as of 2011the country lies at the very bottom of a ranking of merchandise trade (the sum of exports and imports) as a fraction of GDP: less than 20 percent of Brazil’s annual domestic […]
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Austerity: it’s all a matter of “when”
Written by Luciano Sobral
The choice between austerity and more spending looks like an intergenerational dilemma, and a good test to the ability of the humankind to think beyond a couple of years.
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Three Questions for Professor Charles Goodhart
Written by Luciano Sobral
The following article deals with the topic “The Future of Central Banking: Inflation Targeting vs. Financial Stability,” which is currently being discussed at the Global Economic Symposium in Rio. The author intends to enrich the discussion at the symposium with his personal stories and ideas. Professor Charles Goodhart was one of the participants in the […]
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Wanted: Liberalism in Central Banking Debate
Written by Luciano Sobral
The following article deals with the topic “The Future of Central Banking: Inflation Targeting vs. Financial Stability,” which is currently being discussed at the Global Economic Symposium in Rio. “Whatever happened to liberalism?” is the question that keeps ringing in my mind after attending the Global Economic Symposium panel on the future of central […]
