The mistakes of the last Brazilian governments, including the governments of the Labour Party, result primarily from fears of capital markets and a global system that gives these markets immense power over governments.
In Brazil, after the recession of recent years and the transition to a new conservative government (under President Temer, …
In order to understand why a country like Brazil elects a man like Jair Bolsonaro as president, you have to look closely at economic development. The masses of citizens don’t suddenly come up with the idea of making such a figure president, …
Originally posted in German at Makroskop
Translated and edited by BRAVE NEW EUROPE
It is astonishing that people in Western Europe rarely speak about the countries that stumbled into a new economic system after the fall of the Berlin Wall and have since been swimming in the great European economic stream in very different ways and with varying degrees of success. …
