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🌶️ Overheated economy?

🌶️ Overheated economy?

Brazil’s latest GDP reading. Congressional budgetary earmarks cleared again. Lula encroaches on telecom regulatory agency

Gustavo Ribeiro&Isabela Cruz

Dec 3, 2024

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