We’re not in the intensive-care unit, but we are moving towards that,” says Armínio Fraga, a former boss of Brazil’s central bank. How sick is the patient? Brazilian debt is unsustainable on its ...

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A middle-class tax break that nearly halves the number of Brazilians paying income taxes is adding to economic tailwinds that give President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva an edge in early opinion polls as ...

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