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The silly boy (Folha, 18.7.2010)
2010. Only a fool hands over to foreign companies public utilities, such as landline and mobile telephone services (Article: Folha de S.Paulo, 18.7.2010.
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Os dois preços do euro (Folha, 4.7.10)
2010. A tese de que é cedo para ajuste faz sentido a EUA, Reino Unido e Alemanha não para o resto da Europa (Article: Folha).
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The two prices of the euro (Folha, 4.7.2010)
2010. The idea that it is too soon to start the adjustment makes sense for the United States, Great Britain, and Germany not for the rest of Europe (Article: Folha).
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Después de Grecia, qué? (La Onda, 18.6.10)
2010. No hay razón para que el mundo vuelva a sumergirse en la crisis.(Article: La Onda)
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Especulação contra o Euro (Folha, 15.2.10)
2010. Esse ataque especulativo é mais uma comprovação da necessidade de regulação cerrada de bancos e fundos (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Speculation against the Euro (Folha, 15.2.10)
2010. This speculative attack is another evidence of the need to strictly regulate the banks and hedge funds. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Conference in India (Folha, 1.2.10)
Two subjects dominated the debates: the regulation and how developing countries should finance their development. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Crise na Argentina (Folha, 11.1.10)
2010. A decisão da presidente diz respeito à forma de utilizar os recursos do Estado é uma decisão de política fiscal (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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The "matuto" and the magic moment (Folha, 16.11.09)
2009. Does Lula realize it as well? And – what is more important – are Brazilians also aware of the losses they are suffering when they welcome foreign interests so well. Folha de S. Paulo, November 16, 2009
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O pré-sal e a nação (Folha, 7.9.09)
2009. Os três pilares do plano do governo sobre o pré-sal são o sistema de partilha, a Petrossal e o fundo soberano. Eles permitem que o país neutralize a doença holandesa. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Euclydes e identidade nacional (Folha, 31.8.09)
2009. Nesta década estamos começando a reagir, a pensar em termos do grande país que somos.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Euclides da Cunha and national identity (Folha, 31.8.09)
2009. In this decade we are beginning to react, to think in terms of the great country we are. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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É o câmbio, sr. presidente (Folha, 17.8.09)
2009. O Brasil só terá novamente altas taxas de crescimento econômico quando voltar a administrar taxas de câmbio (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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It is the exchange rate, Mr. President (Folha, 17.8.09)
2009. Brazil will only achieve high growth rates when it managed its exchange rate. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Trem-bala e investimento direto (Folha, 10.8.09)
2009. Não interessa ao Brasil oferecer de graça o mercado interno, o patrimônio mais precioso de uma nação (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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High-speed train and direct investment (Folha, 10.8.09)
2009. It is not of benefit to Brazil to offer our domestic market to rich countries for free. A countrys domestic market is its most precious asset. (Article: Folha de S. Paulo)
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A BRIC “at the top of the world” (Folha, 20.7.09)
2009. Brazil is the example that everyone should follow, but as a good provincial, I am wary of so much praise for our country. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Regulamentação a favor dos bancos (Folha, 13.7.09)
2009. Os bancos esquecem que foi a desregulamentação dos anos 1980 que levou a economia mundial a esta imensa crise (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Regulation in the interest of banks (Folha, 13.7.09)
2009. The banks forget that it was the deregulation of the 1980s that took the world economy to this immense crisis. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo |
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Pequena história do mundo (Folha, 6.7.09)
2009. Quando, no início do século XIX, os países da América Latina alcançaram a independência, foi pela metade. Já quando a China e a Índia se tornaram independentes após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, foi para valer. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Pequena euforia, triste Brasil (Folha, 8.6.09)
2009. While the stocket market returns to euphony, government is helpless in relation to the real returning to overappreciate, while . (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Small euphoria, poor Brazil (Folha, 8.6.09)
2009. Tied to the neoliberal principles of financial liberalization, our government passively watches the return of the exchange rate overvaluation. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Por que não limitar a entrada de capitais? (Folha, 25.5.09)
2009. Porque essa política vai contra os princípios fundamentalistas neoliberais aprendidos pelos economistas nas suas escolas (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Why not limit capital inflows? (Folha, 25.5.09)
2009. Because this policy goes against the neoliberal fundamentalist principles that the economists learned in their schools. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Cadernetas de poupança (Folha, 11.5.09)
2009. Surge a ideia dessa estranha e perversa aliança entre grandes rentistas e a classe média de pequenos poupadores (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Savings account (Folha, 11.5.09)
2009. We are now faced with the idea of this strange and perverse alliance between major rent-seekers and the middle class of small savers. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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A crise do supérfluo (Folha, 13.4.09)
2009. Sociedades que combinam consumismo e desigualdade, luxo e pobreza, parecem doentes, apontam críticos (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
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A moral e a crise (Estadão, 22.3.09)
2009. The present crisis is also a moral crisis. It is a consequence of the neoliberal ideology and of the orthodox economic theory. Both teach the "invisible hand" thesis and reject the existence of the public interest. (Article: O Estado de S.Paulo)
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A queda do PIB (Folha, 16.3.09)
2009. O desempenho da produção neste ano vai depender muito da política do governo. Temos sido tímidos em reagir à crise (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Perdoar ou postergar dívidas? (Folha, 2.3.09)
2009. Depressions may last because after the bubble explodes business enterprises decide to reduce their debt. It is the balance sheet theory. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Financeirização e riqueza fictícia (Folha, 23.2.09)
2009. We should clearly distinguish finance from its distortion, "financeirization" - a speculative form of creating fictive wealth. (Article-lesson: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Por onde atacar a crise? (Folha, 16.2.09)
2009 To fight the confidence crisis is necessary to save banks, but fiscal policy should give priority to stimulate consumption and protect unemployed. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Crise: pays émergents sont en train de se effondrer (Mediapart, 1.09)
2009. Effects of the global crisis in Brazil. The increase of unemployment. Flexsecurity as an alternative. (Interview to Ludovic Lamant)
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Debemos ser tan nacionalistas como Francia e Inglaterra (Pagina 12, 25.1.09)
2009. The idea that developing countries need foreign capitals to grow is false. By apreciating the exchange rate, capitals turn into consumption, not in investment. (Interview of Natalia Aruguete in Página 12)
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Socorrer quem? (Folha, 29.12.08)
2008. Se os bancos continuarem a ser socorridos sem serem nacionalizados, não haverá a reestruturação necessária (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Oportunidade de ouro (Folha, 15.12.08)
2008. As the market resolved the exchange rate overvaluation and the reduction of the interest rate may be done without risking inflation, Brazil faces a golden opportunityto escape from its monetary trap.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Paralisado diante da crise (Folha, 8.12.08)
2008. The Central Bank should reduce the interest rate, but it seems paralyzed by the global crisis. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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A crise cambial de 2008 (Folha, 17.11.08)
2008. The sharp depreciation of the Real and of many other national currencies were triggered by the world financial crisis, but caused by the overvaluation of these currencies and the consequent large current account deficits. (article: Folha de S.Paulo)
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Nova Bretton Woods (Folha, 3.11.08)
2008. A agência que substituir o FMI deverá alertar os países que ultrapassarem o limite de déficit em conta corrente (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Crise no mercado financeiro e recuperação da confiança (Folha, 13.10.08)
2008. Given the competent Keynesian policies that the different governments are adopting, this major banking crisis will not have as bad consequences as the one in 1929. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo, 13.10.08).
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Transformar pré-sal em riqueza é desafio (Folha, 29.9.08)
2008. In order to transform the "pre-sal" in wealth, not in curse, it will be necessary to neutralize the embodied Dutch disease. (Debate: Folha de S.Paulo).
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A crise se aprofunda (Folha, 22.9.08)
2008. As in 1929, the current crisis is generated by the speculation of financial agents in search of bigger profits. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Taxa de câmbio deve continuar como principal entrave (Folha, 14.9.08)
2008. Economic growth ceased to be export-led. Now domestic consumption is the main growth factor. (Short interview: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Real precisa ficar ainda mais fraco (Estado de Minas, 7.9.08)
2008. The financial crisis is depreciating the real, but it remains overvalued. (Interview to Heberth Xavier, O Estado de Minas>).
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Estagflação e queda-de-braço (Folha, 30.6.08)
2008. Oil is the commodity that may cause stagflation. Yet, to ask developing countries to appreciate their currencies is hardly a solution. [Article Folha de S.Paulo].
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Enquanto a estratégia não vem (Folha, 2.6.08)
2008. The key elements of a national development strategy that Brazil requires to control inflation and grow. Article Folha de S.Paulo
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Política industrial e câmbio (Folha, 19.5.08)
2008. A política industrial anunciada merece apoio, mas não substitui uma taxa de câmbio não-competitiva (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
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Lula e a dialética (Folha, 24.3.08)
2008. It seems that Lula is understanding that the present exchange rate represents a real danger for the country. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
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Medidas cambiais não vão resolver grande coisa
2008. Only the control of capital inflows will make the exchange rate again competitive. (Interview to Luciana Xavier, O Estado de S.Paulo)
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Crescimento e desindustrialização (Folha, 10.3.08)
2008. The manufacturing industry is growing while it is prematurely desindustrializing due to moderate but not neutralized Dutch disease. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Crise bancária e regulação
2008. The present financial crisis is probably the worst since 1929 because it adds a banking crisis to a long term current account deficit in the US that reduced trust in the dollar. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo 11.2.08).
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Conjuntura contraditória (Folha, 28.1.08)
2008. There no reason for the Brazilian monetary policy increase the interest rate in a moment where the world financial crisis ask caution - a caution that President Lula asks from his policymakers.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
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País do dr. Pangloss
2007. End year good sales are making people to believe in the local Dr. Panglosses. Unhapilly, the current exchange rate is inconsistent with such optimis. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
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Agronegócio, indústria e taxa de câmbio
2007. It is possible and desirable to have a national agreement assuring a more competitive exchange rate. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Instituições mortas
2007. IMF and World Bank are dead institutions. The former engaged in the growth cum foreign savings policy the later, with neo-liberal reforms. Both represent the interest of the rich countries. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)
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A festa acabou
2007. The August 2007 financial crisis marks the end of the extraordinary growth cycle that the world economy experienced in the last five years.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Tarifas, câmbio e OMC
2007. Tariffs are often not protectionist but compensate an overvalued currency. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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Tarifa x câmbio (Folha, 2.7.07)
2007. The Dutch disease is appreciating dangerously the real. Tarifs are an incomplete but effective way of neutralizing such major market failure. The Brazilin authorities are correct in rejectind the Doha negotiatins. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).
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México e Brasil (Folha, 18.6.07)
2007. Mexico and Brazil are good examples of what represents dependence, international subordination, in the competitive times of globalization. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo, 18.6).
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Ex-ministro Bresser-Pereira critica o câmbio apreciado e as altas taxas de juros (FIESP, 13.6.07)
2007. Brazil's economic growth is being threatened by conventional orthodoxy's macroeconomic policies. The overvalued exchange rate that may only be explained by the Dutch disease (given the trade surplus) is behind such over-appreciation that seriously threatens Brazilian manufacturing industry. (FIESP press release, 13.6.2007)
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