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| This Aug. 10 photo shows Marcio Christiansen, CEO of Ferretti Group Brazil, at the company's show room in Sao Paulo. |
As consumer confidence dwindles in the U.S. , farther south in Brazil the local consumers are still happily spending and not even double digit interest rates are enough to truly scare them away. That’s because Brazilians on balance are fast moving into the middle class. More than half of the population is now solidly middle class compared to well less than that five years ago. When looked at month over month, consumer spending rose a meager 0.2% in June as the government’s macroprudential measures to slow inflation by raising interest rates all year showed their strength.
A recent article in the Brazilian newspaper Valor Econômico - the country’s leading business daily -, as of June 14, highlighted a study by PwC that points Brazil among the highest-growth markets in the entertainment and media sectors worldwide in the next five years:
Brazilians are not only visiting Sunny Isles Beach, but in record numbers, they’re investing and keeping real estate in Miami and most of South Florida going.
AFP/File – A group of Chinese tourists look for sourvenirs at the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2009. China, …
| Brazil: The UK Vote |
 By Mark HillaryMarch 8, 2011 I just moved from London to Brazil at the end of last year. I‘ve managed to negotiate my way through the various cartorios to the point where I now have my permanent residency stamp, my CPF card, and my first bank account. Not bad going for the first few weeks of the year. But one thing eludes me, my right to vote back in the UK. I downloaded the forms I need from the Electoral Commission website. That‘s all easy enough. But I need a witness to watch over me as I sign the documents and that person has to be a British passport holder. Suddenly I realised that I don‘t know a single British person in São Paulo. |
' is a 3-D animation feature from the makers of the 'Ice Age
' films. Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy-adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind. When Blu discovers there's another -- and that she's a she -- he leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio. But it's far from love at first sight between the 
There are many reasons why the next decade belongs to countries like Brazil -- one of the world’s emerging economies 
| Written by B. Michael Rubin |
| Thursday, 27 January 2011 14:52 |
 It's a cliché to say it takes longer to get things done in Brazil. Everyone knows life moves a little more slowly in the developing world than in developed countries. From an American perspective, Brazilians are never in a hurry, and conveniently, it's impossible to be late in Brazil.The irony of clichés, of course, is they state the obvious, so people tend to forget them. However, there is something in this cliché - the ability of Brazilians to face schedules and deadlines with a less-than-rigid attitude - worth remembering. There is a depth and history here that goes beyond cliché. Brazilians have an inherent faith that everything will work out in the end, one way or another, even if it's not as planned. And if things do not work out in the end, it's because you haven't yet reached the end, so just be patient. |
| Raising American Children in Brazil |
| By David Persons February 15, 2011  Back in the USA my wife (Brazilian) and I never really gave much thought to raising our family in Brazil, since we were well established there, but late 2006 as we felt the crisis coming we started to discuss the possibilities of international relocation. Since the US economy was heading towards a collapse and by mid 2007 we had made the final decision to relocate to Brazil after carefully considering the alternatives... By relocating we would be able to maintain a similar quality of life and continue private schooling for our children, which was and has always been our priority from the beginning. We then made the "Move" internationally, we loaded up our house into a container and shipped it out. In 45 days our home would arrive so we had |
“ My mother is gone now, but she would’ve never imagined that her son’s first trip to Brazil would be as President of the United States,” Obama said. “And I never imagined that this country would be even more stunning than it was in the movie.”
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