NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

2004. The East and South East countries show that there is an alternative to the conventional orthodoxy which perpetuates macroeconomic instability in Brazil. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2003. Hommage to my mother, Clarita, dead in 1990. Written to be read by the family in the 2003 Christmas. Includes four testimonies.

2003. Conventional orthodoxy allways finds a new argument to keep the basic interest rate high. (Article: Valor Econômico,)

2003. Durante os anos 90, as estatísticas mostram que o grande crescimento dos EUA não foi, na média, superior ao do europeu (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2003. Country risk: the ideological and the relevant rates. A comparison with Russia.(Article in Valor Econômico, 26.11.2003).

2003 Fear is again defeating hope: Brazilians' diminished aspirations. (Article in Folha de S.Paulo, 9.11.2003)

2003. Government should change Brazil's monetary policy or the country will remain semi-stagnant. (Interview to Valor Econômico, 22.10.2003)

2003. The Central Bank works with a quilibrium real interest rate of 9%. Such self-fulfilling profecy condens Brazil to quasi-stagnation. (Valor Econômico, 10.10.2003)

2003. A homage to the 90th birthday of Valentim dos Santos Diniz.(Valor, 19.9.2003)

2003. Since Lula will not be able to finance social expenditures with increased taxes, or increased public indebtedness, economic growth is his only alternative to maintain popularity. (Folha de S. Paulo, 31.8.2003)

2003. Social conflict in inherent to democracy. (Article, Folha de S.Paulo, 10.8.2003)

2003. Interview to revista Forbes criticizing exchange rate and interest rate policy (28.6.2003).

2003. Interview to Isto É-Dinheiro critizing macroeconomic policy (18.6.2003).

High interest rates are ineffective against a predominantly inertial inflation. (Article in Folha de S.Paulo).

2003. Part of the paper on the Irak War with the same title published in this webpage. (Folha de S.Paulo, Mais!, 25.5.2003)

2003. Bresser-Pereira fala sobre os escândalos financeiros ocorridos nos Estados Unidos e sobre a formação de executivos naquele país e no Brasil (Entrevista de Sérgio Goldbaum e Mário Aquino Alves)

2003. The Second Washington Consensus (growth with foreing savings and open capital account) means macroeconomic instability. (Folha de S.Paulo, 11.5.2003).

2003. An exchange rate informal target is essential. (Interview to O Estado de S.Paulo, 6.5.2003).

2003. Brazilian elites stoped thinking and the country is in a real 'credibility trap'. (Large interview to Jornal do Commercio, 23.3.03)

The remaining confidence crisis still prevents the new administration to change its macroeconomic policy, consistently lowering the basic interest rate (Folha de S.Paulo, 16.2.2003).