1. An Open-Minded Test For Media Credibility
As of this moment, I know next to nothing about Brazil's new president. I am starting this thread to keep track of how Brazil fares under the new president. As per the below reporting, Brazil should fail miserably. We shall see.
As of this moment, I know next to nothing about Brazil's new president. I am starting this thread to keep track of how Brazil fares under the new president. As per the below reporting, Brazil should fail miserably. We shall see.
3. Okay, here we go. All I know about Bolsonaro is that people have elected him to deliver prosperity, not please the US media. So one, by no means only, reasonable metric to judge his performance over the next couple of years will be Brazil's GDP growth.
4. What's so bad about any of it?
"Jair Bolsonaro swept to power in Brazil, marking a hard pivot to the right that promises to open up the resource-rich economy to private investment, strengthen ties to the U.S. and unleash an aggressive crackdown on epidemic crime." -- Bloomberg
"Jair Bolsonaro swept to power in Brazil, marking a hard pivot to the right that promises to open up the resource-rich economy to private investment, strengthen ties to the U.S. and unleash an aggressive crackdown on epidemic crime." -- Bloomberg
