{"id":13422,"date":"2015-10-15T06:04:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13422"},"modified":"2015-10-15T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:04:34","slug":"brazil-faces-unemployment-crisis-as-retail-sales-plunge-rousseff-blasts-coup-mongers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13422","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Faces Unemployment “Crisis”, As Retail Sales Plunge, Rousseff Blasts “Coup-Mongers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil Faces Unemployment “Crisis”, As Retail Sales Plunge, Rousseff Blasts “Coup-Mongers”<\/a><\/h3>\n

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff got a rare bit of respite on Tuesday when a Supreme Court justice granted an injunction that delays a lower house vote which could have paved the way for impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n

House speaker Eduardo Cunha has remained defiant, vowing to exercise his \u201cconstitutional prerogative\u201d to review impeachment requests.<\/p>\n

Of course Cunha has his own set of problems. Allegations of corruption tied to the discovery of Swiss bank accounts have led to calls for his resignation and that, in turn, has Rousseff\u2019s \u201caides fear[ing] the speaker could try to speed up the impeachment process.\u201d As\u00a0Reuters notes<\/a>, if Cunha accepts even one of three impeachment petitions he has on his desk, \u201ca parliamentary commission with representatives of all parties would analyze it and put it to a lower house vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is essentially a race against time to see if the house ethics committee will force his resignation before he can secure the lower house support to force a Senate impeachment trial.<\/p>\n

For her part, Rousseff\u00a0has accused<\/a>\u00a0the opposition of \u201ccoup-mongering\u201d following last week\u2019s ruling by the TCU that she cooked the fiscal books.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as the intractable political stalemate keeps investors on edge regarding whether the government will be stable enough to enact the reforms needed to plug the budget gap, the economy continues to crumble.<\/p>\n

We got a look at retail sales for August today and the picture was not pretty. Core retail sales fell by a larger-than-expected 0.9% month on month and July was revised lower to -1.6%.\u00a0Broad retail sales fell 2.0% auto sales crashed 5.2%. Annually, core fell by 6.9% broad by 9.6% yoy.<\/strong>\u00a0Here\u2019s Goldman with the takeaway:<\/p>\n

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The near-term outlook for private consumption and retail sales remains negative owing to the significant deceleration of credit flows from both private and public banks, high levels of household indebtedness, declining job creation and real wage growth, higher interest rates, higher taxes (including via inflation), higher utility and transportation tariffs, heightened economic and political uncertainty and very depressed (record low) consumer confidence.<\/em><\/div>\n

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