I try never to make predictions. I think they are bad luck. But I have agreed with some of the bullish links I have posted. In the long run, the fundamentals are still here. Especially if you believe in growth based on consumer spending, which is the way Lula's PT has engineered the internal economy. A lot of it is flash in the pan stuff designed to appease the Brazilian masses and also put on a patina of progress to attract foreign investment. The government here is expert at propaganda and dressing things up and putting on a show is what Brazil is best at ... Carnival ... pra ingles ver ...Beer, Beach and Bum-Bum, the Brazilian mark is hard to beat!

One in the hand is worth two in the bush ... 1.85 is looking much better than 1.65

Do you have any money to lose?

Originally posted by Gringodude Don't you find the growth exciting? I do! Ever since my first time in Brazil, I see the basis for potential and it never stops. Yes of course there is much frustration to accompany that. However I feel it's incredible and I am still excited to this day! Any entrepreneurs?

If I was 20-something again, like you, yes, it would be quite exciting.  Yet if I wanted "exciting", I would have moved to Shanghai.  I moved here (Floripa) for the sossegado factor, not the growth potential.  Yet little did I realize back then, I was on the crest of a huge wave, which has yet break.  "Growth" here means more traffic, higher prices, and a quality of life which is less than what it was a few years ago.  I have no doubt this story is being repeated in other cities in Brasil.

GD, rather than inquiring if there are any entrepreneurs, you should perhaps be looking for some venture capitalists.  You're young.  Go for it!  You might lose it all once, even twice.  Most successful people have.  But you learn from it; there's no such thing as "failure"....

I mean in the spiritual sense of being an entrepreneur. Personally I feel more attracted to the management or leadership side of this "wave" (as you call it). Why? Well because it needs direction and if you're an inventor or creator, Brazil is not so easy or to the effect competent on how to function. Somehow I am wrong because 200 million people somehow function, though against all common sense, yet it works well for them. Though technology will increase and knowledge will also rise that awareness is key and i think there is a pool of success to be filled!

I love to make sure everyone understands what it is their doing! Brazil needs that in so many ways! At least that's my stake in it!