Reading Veja: A Collective Act of Exuberant Irrationality?

In the late afternoon, at 5:47 pm, after Treasury ministry Mantega and Central Bank president Meirelles had announced the anticrisis package, the blog Radar Online, of Veja magazine, announced that the major Brazilian banks had suspended “any and all personal loans or financing.”
The Observatório da Imprensa’s Luciano Martins Costa argues that Veja magazine — “crisis [...]

O Globo: The Crisis Will Cut Social Programs! (Not!)

I head over to the blog of Zé Dirceu, the controversial former government minister and lobbyist, to see if I can verify my idle hypothesis:
That the second round of the municipal elections in São Paulo are going to be down and dirty, like a USC student election when Donald Segretti was going to law school [...]

“Credit Suisse, Client Threaten to Swap Top-Secret Nuclear Press Releases”

Relatório reservado nº3484 13/10/2008 has this rumor of an impending war of derogatory phreaks and leaks in the pages of the Brazilian press.
O embate entre a Diagnósticos da América (Dasa) e o Credit Suisse (CS) promete novos e tórridos capítulos. Assim como a Dasa pôde vazar à imprensa detalhes sigilosos de uma negociação com o [...]