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Brazilian real
As a foreign currency hedge you really can't beat the real. Given the decline in the world economy it is a good time to get on Brasil's bandwagon.
Posted to Today's Business Press by david wayne osedach on August 18, 2008
Re: What difference will it make?
kgsbca: So the politicians should stay out of this, if they know what is good for the US economy. They probably won't, though, for if the company is acquired by a foreign owner, they will lose a valuable source of local campaign contributions, and we know that is the most important issue for politicians. No one yet seems to have noticed ...
Posted to Moneybox by Saphireyes on June 28, 2008
Should a Company own Your right to use The Brand FUTURE
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Posted to Moneybox by futurevisionaries.com on September 5, 2007
Leave Criticism of the Aviation Industry to Experts
Dear Elizabeth Spiers, Its amazing that you were able to write such a mess of an article that skews facts from fiction and is downright false, all because it seems you wanted to vent because your brazilian flights were delayed. It seems very tacky and shows a real sense of self-centeredness. First, why don't you let if anything your boyfriend ...
Posted to Moneybox by WillinNYC06 on July 20, 2007
Wow
Wow. All I can say is: wow. This is one of the most embarassing articles I've ever read. I hope and pray that anyone reading Slate in Brazil realize that you do not even speak for a fraction of Americans. 200 people die in one of the worst ways imaginable, and your response is to feel smugly vindicated for thinking that your single (rather ...
Posted to Moneybox by KaizerSozhe on July 20, 2007
Terrible writing, terrible article
The editorial staff made an error when they decided to run this article. Even leaving aside the ethical and moral aspects of using a tragedy for a jumping off point to a rant about bad travel experiences, the writing is awful. The author starts with the thesis that TAM is the worst airline in the world, then enumerates as evidence a series of ...
Posted to Moneybox by pratkat on July 20, 2007
Plenty of Blame to Go Around
Latest news this morning is that the plane was flying without the reverse thruster on the right-side engine, and had been for about a week. Apparently this is permissible (according to Airbus), but combined with the recently paved and slick runway led to disaster. Despite the desire to find someone to blame, most incidents of this nature have ...
Posted to Moneybox by Angostura on July 20, 2007
Absolutely right about Brazilian air travel
The Brazilian economy is poised to take off, based on Chinese demand for Brazilian foodstuffs and worldwide demand for cane ethanol. HOWEVER, the difficulty of movement WITHIN the country is a major infrastructural roadblock. If you think the airports are bad, you have to see the roads. What's the deal with this interface with all these ...
Posted to Moneybox by mattfugazi on July 19, 2007
America's Stupidity in a Cornhusk
On one hand, we have super-expensive corn subsidies that any reasonable economist will tell you are ridiculous and which cannot help our clean-fuel needs even under the most optimistic scenarios. On the other hand, we have super-high import tariffs on Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol, which is not only is produced far more cheaply than corn ethanol, ...
Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by Rebelde on June 27, 2007