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Brazil, From Losing Investment Grade to...IMF Bailout [?!]

Roussef is probably nostalgic about her Marxist guerrilla fighter days right about now. The seemingly inevitable just happened: after being hit hard by slumping global commodity prices, Brazil's …

Goldhater: Can India Fix Its Current Account Deficit?

First came the James Bond film Goldfinger , then came the spoof movie Goldmember . Now we have the threequel... Goldhater . It is generally well-known that India is a major if not the #1 market for t…

Japan's Trading Houses Vie for Copper Supremacy

In competitive market economies, the battle for the commanding heights is conducted by corporations as well as countries. Now, Japan's massive trading houses that underpin the keiretsu system of…
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