{"id":34816,"date":"2018-06-06T13:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34816"},"modified":"2018-06-06T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:01:33","slug":"brazil-steps-up-intervention-to-support-the-real-reflections-on-currency-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34816","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Steps Up Intervention to Support the Real: Reflections on Currency Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brazil Steps Up Intervention to Support the Real: Reflections on Currency Wars<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Winning currency wars is easy. As with trade wars, one may not care for the end result.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Bloomberg reports Brazil Steps Up Intervention as the Real Crashes Toward Two-Year Low<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Brazil\u2019s central bank bolstered efforts to shore up the currency after it tumbled to the weakest level since former President Dilma Rousseff\u2019s tumultuous impeachment in 2016.<\/p>\n

The real has weakened 12 percent since the end of March, the worst performance among 16 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg, as investors grow concerned that October elections could usher in a new president less attuned to investors and business. Fear that moves seen as key to fixing fiscal problems would be derailed have exacerbated what\u2019s already been a lackluster year in emerging markets. The real fell 0.9 percent to 3.7791 per dollar as of 11:55 a.m. in New York, and earlier reached 3.8056, the weakest since March 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Brazil Declares Currency War<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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March 3, 2012 Flashback: Brazil Declares New Currency War on US and Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Brazil has declared a fresh \u201ccurrency war\u201d on the US and Europe, extending a tax on foreign borrowings and threatening further capital controls in an effort to protect the country\u2019s struggling manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Guido Mantega, the finance minister who was the first to use the controversial term in 2010, said the government would not \u201csit by passively\u201d as developed nations continue to pursue expansionary monetary policies at the expense of Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the real appreciates, it reduces our competitiveness. Exports are more expensive, imports are cheaper and it creates unfair competition for businesses in Brazil<\/em>,\u201d he said on Thursday after announcing changes to the so-called IOF tax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What a Hoot<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Note the irony. The Brazil currency war was really about trade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This was my comment at the time: “Mathematically speaking, the desire for every country to be net exporters is impossible. Massive trade wars are on the horizon as a result<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazil Steps Up Intervention to Support the Real: Reflections on Currency Wars Winning currency wars is easy. As with trade wars, one may not care for the end result. Bloomberg reports Brazil Steps Up Intervention as the Real Crashes Toward Two-Year Low. Brazil\u2019s central bank bolstered efforts to shore up the currency after it tumbled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90,3052,188,14648,13390],"class_list":["post-34816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-brazil","tag-brazilian-real","tag-currency-war","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34817,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34816\/revisions\/34817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}