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Lula da Silva tries to convince top US corporations and banks to invest in Brazil
Former president Lula da Silva lobbied strongly on Thursday in New York trying to convince US investors to make business in Brazil during a conference to members of the American Society and Council of Americas, which organized the event. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHe is a criminal and should be in jail and certainly not hawking a country.
Feb 15th, 2014 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Someone should also tell him 11 years of past growth doesn't mean 11 years of future growth. Try looking at 50 year periods for countries it is much more telling.
Nothing structural has changed in Brazil. Eventually all the low hanging fruit is gone.
There are too many uneducated poor for the country ever to be considered one of the big boys.
My guess is they will have a long bout of Stagflation.
That's just starting now
They'll be lucky if they don't follow in Argentina's footsteps.
Brazilian tourists visiting the USA by year: 2.600.000
Feb 15th, 2014 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Spending Brazilian tourists per year: 26 billions USD
U.S. surplus in trade with Brazil by year: 10 billions USD
Trade Brazil / USA per year: 60 billions USD
Estimated revenues of U.S. companies in Brazil per year: 400 billions USD
Brazil's foreign currency reserves deposited at the Fed / USA: 360 billions USD
He might well be the most corrupt politician in the history of my country.
Feb 15th, 2014 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 3
Feb 15th, 2014 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But he's Brazilian, not English ...
”Lula´s main message was you shouldn´t be afraid to invest in Brazil,”
Feb 15th, 2014 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because I need your money to stuff my pockets with! Who cares I am the biggest crook in Brazil? Not me anyway.
@ 4 Brasso:
You are without doubt the dumbest Brazilian that posts on MP. You deserve everything that is about to happen to your country.
@5
Feb 15th, 2014 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Crisis is normal for us. I was born in a country in crisis, living in a country in crisis, and I will die in a country in crisis.
No crisis has no country to survive.
Novamente:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8PcAqbjfns&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&feature=mh_lolz
Brassie that is something to be very proud of......crisis start to finish.....birth to death. What exactly is Brazil developing to be when they grow up?
Feb 15th, 2014 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Two steps forward Three steps back.
Feb 15th, 2014 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Plus I'll be so happy when the Brazilians can't afford to travel to NYC any longer!
Thank goodness they never got into the visa waiver program!
Health to survive the crisis.
Feb 15th, 2014 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Just coming to look at another criminal state.
Feb 15th, 2014 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Precisely. Bent as they come!
@6 Oh good. Next week?
@9 Don't wave. We don't care. Lulu is as bent as they come. So is Brazil. Only way I'd visit Brazil is if I could bomb it first!
You could try ....
Feb 15th, 2014 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5EB6awrS1k&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
@ 11 Brasso
Feb 15th, 2014 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is it with you? You hate the “English” but love the Krauts?
Laughable video, going back to the lost legion indeed, more to do with arrogance of the Romans than the fighting shrewdness of the Germanic Tribes, who like many countries in the world, including your were nothing like the present inhabitants.
Try this for an alternative, modern day, German soldier: or should I say drunkard?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/3546154/German-soldiers-too-fat-to-fight-the-Taliban.html
The Americans should just say [ NUTS ]
Feb 15th, 2014 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The “Americans” should just say [ NUTS ]..about what? The people (sadly not the majority) are full aware that comes out of the mouth of the Federal Reserve you simply can't take serious, since it's a private central bank that represents the same zombie banks that rob us. Mr Da silva is full aware that you don't need the US private banks (who are in reality broke) that don't want to compete with Brazilian public banks, but wants more US manufacturing businesses that are investing heavily in Brazil rather than in the US. Detroit is a sad example where the US manufacturing is heading....
Feb 15th, 2014 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However Lula da Silva told investors that the recent predictions by economists had been exaggerated and highlighted Brazil's growth over the past 11 years, since the ruling Worker´s Party (PT) has been in office.“
Feb 15th, 2014 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He may be able to fool the dumb majority in Brazil, but not foreign businessmen....the latter have access to the correct information. Anything, literally anything that comes out of Lula's mouth, is pure, unadulterated s**t.. you can count on it. The biggest crook in Brazilian political history.
@2 Brasileiro , you post information ...and ?? you are incapable of interpreting it, aren't you, asshole ?? well, let me do it for you ::
”Brazilian tourists visiting the USA by year: 2.600.000
Spending Brazilian tourists per year: 26 billions USD“
this means that smart tourists, who know how to spend their cash efficiently, do NOT take vacations in Brazil..it's too f*****g expensive !! shitty little hotels in Rio are going to charge US$ 1,000.00 per night for a cockroach-ridden room with no airconditioning. During the World Cup , I'm going to the US, to get away from all this shit, something YOU, asshole, will never be able to do.
@4..”But he's Brazilian, not English” ....you hit the nail on the head ! Lula IS a Brazilian....unfortunately....and as ignorant and corrupt as they come ! (no offense to the hard-working, honest Brazilians...a dying breed, but they DO exist.)
@14 An interesting question. Are you stupid and uneducated or are you lying?
Feb 16th, 2014 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank
Quotes: “They are organized much like private corporations—possibly leading to some confusion about ownership.”
“... the ”ownership“ of the Reserve Banks by the commercial banks is symbolic; they do not exercise the proprietary control associated with the concept of ownership nor share, beyond the statutory dividend, in Reserve Bank ”profits.“ ... Bank ownership and election at the base are therefore devoid of substantive significance, despite the superficial appearance of private bank control that the formal arrangement creates.”
“The Federal Reserve Banks issue shares of stock to member banks. However, owning Federal Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Federal Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the system. The stock may not be sold or traded or pledged as security for a loan; dividends are, by law, limited to 6% per year.”
Then there's the Federal Reserve System:
“The legislation that Congress ultimately adopted in 1913 reflected a hard-fought battle to balance these two competing views and created the hybrid public-private, centralized-decentralized structure that we have today.”
What, is the full duration of his sales pitch gonna be shown on Comedy Central or something? Maybe they'll bump him up to the late night circuit, with Letterman and Kimmel and the like...
Feb 16th, 2014 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lula on the back of strong commodity prices presided over the biggest opportunity Brazil could ever have to make a great leap for all Brazilian society, and he f**ked it up. Now the chickens are coming home to roost regarding the overall inept and unsustainable PT bollox policies. Brasileiro defending this crook you should be ashamed.
Feb 16th, 2014 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18, tik-tok, the Brasileiro is too stupid to feel ashamed....as far as the Lula turd is concerned, hope the mother f****r goes to visit his buddy, Hugo Chavez, the sooner the better....
Feb 16th, 2014 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil needs to open it´s markets and stay away from partners the likes of Venezuela and Argentina. Investors are looking at those countries now and don´t see Brazil coming out in favor of protecting private investment, on the contrary, they see Dilma befriending populists and demagogues with a history of no respect for investors.
Feb 16th, 2014 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On a lighter note I would just like to point out that in the UK;
Feb 16th, 2014 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasso (TM), is a metal polish designed to remove tarnish from brass, copper, chrome and stainless steel. It is available either directly as a liquid or as an impregnated wadding pad.
So, Brasso (6 Brasileiro et al.) is therefore just an impregnated wad useful only buffing-up something that is cheap and already tarnished....
lol!
I shall from now on only refer to “Brasileiro” as that
“impregnated wad” ©Ilsen 2014
But feel free to use it, pmsl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ 21 ilsen
Feb 17th, 2014 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Was I not the first to use “Brasso”? :o)
@ 21, 22
Feb 17th, 2014 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0So Brasso is very successful in England! English have a lot of shit to clean.
#21 Brasso is a major product in the US military as well. However, that being said, this is why I prefer to refer to it as Brassie and not Brasso. Brasso is useful.
Feb 17th, 2014 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0@24
Feb 17th, 2014 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0U.S. Military. Another one that just makes shit.
@22 Chris R
Feb 17th, 2014 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0quite possibly! I have no idea!
It just occurred to me. With consideration I suppose it is not so original after all, just like that impregnated wad, Brasso!
Boom, boom!
Considering the growing mess with the World Cup:
Feb 17th, 2014 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/brazil-world-cup-disaster-delays-protests-deaths
and:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/brazil-world-cup-disaster-delays-protests-deaths
or
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/brazil-world-cup-disaster-delays-protests-deaths
Just one more. There are just too many to paste:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/brazil-world-cup-disaster-delays-protests-deaths
The OCOG still has time to back out of the 2016 Olympics....what a nightmare it's going to be!!!! Lulu should be asking for construction workers and Engineers.
I referred to THIS Brazilian asshole as “Brazzo”, some two or three weeks ago....no invention of mine, just a term commonly used here by foreigners. I know a lot of Brazilians, in all social layers, and most are decent people - have also come across one or two, similar to this moron ...just steer clear of them....especially the PeTistas who idolize Lula and his successor, TFBOB ....
Feb 17th, 2014 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0DILMA 2014
Feb 18th, 2014 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0LULA 2018
LULA 2022
Bye bye PSDB!
BRASILEIRO you are quite, quite mad.
Feb 18th, 2014 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@29, a reaction to be expected from a lowlife PeTista like THIS Brazzo....he IS a complete turd....doesn't even have the brains to defend himself when being “attacked”....a real pussy.
Feb 18th, 2014 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And to end on a happy note : Lula : b.1945 - d. 2014
No harm in wishing !
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