Regulatory agencies promise to protect consumers, but they often become instruments of political power and privilege. This analysis reveals how regulatory capture stifles competition.
Crises are used as excuses to expand state power, create new taxes and restrict freedoms. This analysis reveals how the Brazilian state transforms emergencies into instruments of ...
A study by BTG Pactual shows that Brazil will have one of the largest nominal deficits in the world in 2024 and 2025. This analysis reveals how the Brazilian State has transformed the deficit into a permanent practice, ...
The fiscal deficit in Brazil is no longer an exception but has become the rule. This analysis reveals how governing in the red has become a strategy of power, harming growth, economic freedom...
While the government repeats that “there is no money”, parliamentarians keep aid, funds and privileges untouched. This analysis shows how austerity in Brazil is selective: it cuts from the people, not...
The Brazilian State has created an internal economy, where it contracts its own services through agreements, foundations and state-owned companies — always with public money. In this post, we dismantle the cycle ...
Even without delivering results, the Brazilian State continues to grow: more ministries, more positions, more budget. This analysis shows how inefficiency is rewarded within the state logic...
Enquanto aposentados aguardam meses por seus benefícios, entidades associativas desviam R$ 6,3 bilhões com aval estatal. A fila do INSS dobrou sob o governo Lula, que prometeu eliminá-la. O sistema...
When the state decides who should win, merit disappears. In this critique, we expose how interventionism penalizes productivity, rewards inefficiency and stifles freedom....
Authorities talk about a new "economic miracle", but the reality for ordinary Brazilians is very different: loss of purchasing power, high tax burden and illusory growth sustained by spending...
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