MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Brazil anticipates 'program of targeted tax increases' and 'fare realism' for power and fuel
Brazil's finance minister said on Tuesday a program of targeted tax increases was designed with the intention to not harm fragile growth in Latin America's largest economy. Joaquim Levy also pledged 'fare realism' for electricity bills and fuel prices based on 'business reasons'. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHe can anticpate what he likes: I anticipate another round of violence, buses set on fire (that'll help) and general anti-government backlashes in the north of this ill managed, riddled with idle bastards on the take and corrupt government third world country.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Every parting is painful. I fully understand you.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil should quickly integrate supply chains led by China. When this happens everything will be solved with the West.
The U$ is expected to be 10-15% higher over the next year. Money will flow out of 3rd world risky investments into the USA.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commodities will further go lower.
Brazil is screwed.
They spent their windfall from the last decade and got a temporary boost for their people with nothing sustainable to show for it.
They're right behind Argentina on the road to ruin.
@2. Do us a favour. Brazil couldn't integrate Christmas paper chains.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Go with China. You have lots of land. China has lots of people. The people go where the government tells them to go. Can you see the picture? Will argieland or brazil be called 'New China'? Which will be the 'New Territories'? How easy it will be to conquer the impoverished latam countries. Tens of thousands of Chinese troops and labourers. Will Brazil dare to ask for American and British help? Will it be surprised when America and Britain say “Your problem”.
North Americans and British are long forgotten. We Americans never ask you to fight for us, but you have already asked us twice that we fought for you.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We Americans received tens of millions of poor European immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so why can not we take our Chinese brothers too?
After all 55% of our territory is virgin and unexplored. The Chinese need our wealth and land and we need them and the Russians very much to fight with us against the NoAm and British.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yl9OsbGmKg&index=11&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
What the hell are you talking about? Brazil is more European than China.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You aren't cutting off anything other than your own nose to spite your face. Brazil is not going to turn its back on the west he uses the west is not one country or culture.
Brazil is more Western than any other BRICS country. The BRICS are nothing more than China and maybe India with some wannabe hanger ons.
So when is this mythical event of joining up with China going to happen?
Because Australia (a western country) exports more to China than Brazil does. God Switzerland and Malaysia do too. China's largest trading partner is the EU followed by the USA. Brazil is EIGHT with 2.2% of trade behind the 25% for the U.S. & EU.
How important is Brazil to China? Well do you see it in the following list?
China-ASEAN FTA
China-Pakistan FTA
China-Chile FTA
China-New Zealand FTA
China-Singapore FTA
China-Peru FTA
China-Costa Rica FTA
China-Iceland FTA
China-Switzerland FTA
Fucking Iceland can get a free trade agreement with China but not Brazil.
You guys aren't even negotiating one:
China-Gulf Cooperation Council FTA
China-Australia FTA
China-Norway FTA
China-Korea FTA
China-Japan-Korea FTA
China-Sri Lanka FTA
China-India Regional Trade Arrangement Joint Feasibility Study
China-Columbia FTA Joint Feasibility Study
Where is Brazil? Nowhere you keep SPECULATING on wishful thinking of what might happen only if other shit happens first.
The EU is Brazil's largest trading partner. So suck it up.
And stop putting dumb fucking YouTube links on your posts. You're like a 4 year old who has just discovered YouTube exists. It makes you look like a wanker.
@ 6 Skip
Jan 14th, 2015 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ It makes you look like a wanker.”
And? :o)
Westerners are blind! All your stats are irrelevant because they do not reflect the current reality of trade in local currency and the intrinsic relationship between strong states that make up the BRICS.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Westerners are blind because they do not see that Europe and North America represent no longer any shit for economic activity in South America.
Westerners are blind because they do not realize that trade with them has been decreasing year after year and significantly increasing with China and Russia. If we consider the trade in local currency we will assume that Westerners are endangered.
Westerners are blind because they do not have a clue what's going on between South America and the BRICS. Westerners are not part of the new alliances that are being born. They have no idea of it.
South America is not blind, so it does not western.
hahaha Your statistics in dollars are frozen in time and no longer represent the reality of the world.
post scriptum: if you do not like my videos, you are not required to see them.
8. My advice is to immediately take all of your U$ and heavily invest in the Arg Peso, Russian Rouble.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Braz you're one dumb cluck.
Yankee, you seem kind of desperate. I saw an advertisement in MercoPress with the flag of China. It was something about an institution called WealthDaily.
Jan 14th, 2015 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Too bad I can only see it when I'm in Spain or Portugal.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2015/01/14/377029641/in-brazil-a-once-high-flying-economy-takes-a-tumble
Jan 15th, 2015 - 12:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brasshole.....do you study to be like you are or is it natural?
Brasileiro
Jan 15th, 2015 - 03:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0By all means, call us blind because that is the only way your warped world view works. If everyone else is too blind to see what you and ONLY you see.
China's and Brazil's trade statistics ain't affected by currency. 25% of Chinese trade measure on US dollars is the same if it is measured in Yuan.
And what “new alliances”? Does Brazil have any free trade deals with any BRICS members? Or military alliances?
Brazil is in recession. Its trade is tanking. Along with its currency.
When are all these changes supposed to start happening? I mean it is my country that has just finalised a free trade deal. We sell nearly everything Brazil sells.
Why does China need Brazil? China's growth is slowing every year. It's workforce has peaked. It is about to deal with the mother of all demographic challenges.... but you think it will somehow empower Brazil to do what? Escape its geographical relationship with Latin America or the fact it is close to the US or that the EU still exports plenty of high end manufactures to both China and Brazil.
There is no free trade with the West. Who wants to do business with the West will always be at the risk of being sanctioned. If any region begin to emerge economically will be seen as a threat and will soon experience a “currency war”. If any country innovate technologically soon be spying victim by the West.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0No. We do not trust the West.
Speaking of one of the more “influential” BRICs and their fast and furious fall...
Jan 15th, 2015 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Russia has to cut back their annual budget by 35%, except they're not touching their military so its all falling on the citizens, they're laying off 10,000 doctors in Moscow!! They're predicted to have GDP fall 3.5% this year and inflation of 17%!! And that's at U$50/b oil!! Its U$47 and going to U$30 by summer.
Bahahahahahaha
I hope they revolt.
Looks like China is booming as well:
Jan 15th, 2015 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-01/china-factory-gauge-slips-to-lowest-level-since-june-2013.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-01/china-factory-gauge-slips-to-lowest-level-since-june-2013.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-01/china-factory-gauge-slips-to-lowest-level-since-june-2013.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-01/china-factory-gauge-slips-to-lowest-level-since-june-2013.html
The last is for who has. After all, Brazil is not a democracy anyway.
Looks like between Russia's collapse, China's slowdown and Brazils impending gloom the BRICS will only be a mere IS.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-01/china-factory-gauge-slips-to-lowest-level-since-june-2013.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-01/china-factory-gauge-slips-to-lowest-level-since-june-2013.html
India will surpass China one day due solely to their use of English. China is in trouble. Even the really terrible economic numbers coming out of there are highly inflated. They're not going to make the jump to 1st world, they may not even have the same borders they have now in a decade.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't see how Brazil is going to cope with the Olympic build out. They're going to go heavily into debt at high rates to get it done.
Oh well.
The BRICS term was hijacked from being purely an investment grouping term for the west into some sort of Chinese bulwark and counterweight to the G7.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Simpletons like Brasileiro fell for it because after being marginalised and downtrodden by their own country, they could finally feel empowered to change the world.
But the BRICS was really all about China. However they took straight line forecasts of countries like Brazil, Russia and India and found to their (non)surprise that these countries would come to dominate the world economically.
Brazil's GDP......2,246 billion
Jan 15th, 2015 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0India's GDP.......1,877 billion
With that fat ass commie at the helm........perhaps 2 years tops and India will be far ahead of Brazil.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102342232
Jan 15th, 2015 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The USA is going to leave the rest of the world behind.
We are in a multi decade upswing. If Odumbo would stop with all the nutty plans and the millions of new regulations our economy would be like a rocket.
I can't wait until this Bama nightmare is behind us.
I think Obama is leaving a timebomb for the next administration in terms of economy and society. He's importing drug dealers like Cristina Fernandez, his welfare state is unsustainable. The RAH RAH Brics tards rant about zionism but ignore what Levy, Rousseff, Kiciloff, and Cristina Fernandez Wilhelm have in common. Death to the buitres!! viva la patria!! viva israel!!
Jan 16th, 2015 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazzasshole
Jan 16th, 2015 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 “Brazil should quickly integrate supply chains led by China. When this happens everything will be solved with the West.”“
The ignorANUS speakin' again...what f*cking supply chain from China ?? you're mad ! And so, when everything, according to your shitty little brain, is 'solved with the west', I presume the 'problems will start with the East....you are one dumb idiot !
@5 ”North Americans and British are long forgotten. We Americans never ask you to fight for us, but you have already asked us twice that we fought for you.“
Just for yr info, you moron, what's all this shit about ”we Americans“ ??? The 'we” you refer to are called South Americans....the term “American” is reserved for the North Americans....which you are not.
@5 “After all 55% of our territory is virgin and unexplored. The Chinese need our wealth and land and we need them and the Russians very much to fight with us against the NoAm and British”.......55% is virgin and unexplored ?? yes, sure....if you consider the Amazon rain forest.....why don't we chop it down and then welcome 200 million Chinese to settle there ?? D'you realize how stupid you are ? obviously not.
@8 “Westerners are blind! All your stats are irrelevant because they do not reflect the current reality of trade in local currency and the intrinsic relationship between strong states that make up the BRICS”
'Westerners are blind' you say....well, what are we Brazilians ? Easterners ?? you can't tell your arse from your elbow... and your bullshit about 'stats being irrelevant'....do you even know what a stat is, dumf*ck ?
@10 'Too bad I can only see it when I'm in Spain or Portugal.“....what a f*cking liar ....you've never left your slum ......
@13 ”There is no free trade with the West”........got to ask you again, do eat your feces for breakfast every morning ? Been taking your HIV cocktail as the Cuban doctor ordered ??
And before I forget, one word of advice...'go and f*ck yourself '!
@5
Jan 17th, 2015 - 01:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Great idea, have the Chinese cut down all the trees, so that all of Brazil can become drought stricken like the Sertao at its worst. Maybe you will then become a new Lampiao? Jajajajajajajajajajaja!
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/chopperlaff_zpsryuikyku.gif
Brasshole, what do you actually do for a living? Possibly hang out on a seedy corner in Rua Augusta? You won't learn much about the reality of world economics talking with the other she males. Get an education and a life fella.
Jan 17th, 2015 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0@23 Tik Tok
Jan 17th, 2015 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's too late for the Braasshole.....schools will not admit transvestites with HIV....best thing it can do, is to keep on selling its bum on the Augusta...along with the rest of the “Brasileiro” gang..
HIV is an insult now?
Jan 18th, 2015 - 03:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hmmmm
@25
Jan 18th, 2015 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Skip, apologize if I offended you, but my intention WAS to offend the Brazasshole - here, to be a bearer of HIV is nothing to be proud of.
But to be honest, I didn't quite catch on to what YOU were trying to imply ....perhaps that I'm being insensitive towards those who have the disease, or that to have the disease is considered normal nowadays, and those who have it should take it in their stride ? Interested to hear your opinion.
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