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Economy & Business - June 2011 (ISSN 1741-7430)

Still strong

Hardly a week goes by without some neo-liberal economist trying to pick holes in Brazil’s impressive economic performance. First there were scares that inflation was running out of control; now some are claiming that the growth in bank credit cannot be healthy. What the neo-liberals want is for policymakers to overreact with swingeing spending cuts or even higher interest rates. The government, however, is using its own incremental but effective methods to keep the economy under control.

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