Category: Brazil

Steve Bannon Hosts a Dinner of International Populist Leaders

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Steve Bannon, an architect of Trump’s 2016 victory who became a senior White House aide, hosted the dinner Wednesday night for Nigel Farage, a key figure in the movement that led to Brexit; Jerome Riviere, a leader in France’s right-wing National Rally party and member of the European Parliament; Eduardo Bolsonaro, a son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro; and Eduardo Verastegui, an actor and staunch Roman Catholic who’s considering a run for president of Mexico.

Raheem Kassam, a former editor at Breitbart News, of which Bannon was executive chairman, co-hosted the dinner at the Hay-Adams hotel. He said the purpose of the gathering was “to bring together the great economic nationalist voices from around the world, not just to celebrate the victories of recent years and honor Nigel Farage for the Brexit achievement, but also to look ahead for 2020 and beyond.”

— Read on archive.is/2W5ad

‘Economic Nationalism’ vs. Libertarian Globalism Is the Battleground of 21st Century Politics

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What I took away from the movie was less about whether Bannon might personally be able to scale Trumpism up to the international level and more about the realization that nationalism vs. globalism is the fundamental political cleavage in the 21st century. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have far more in common with each other than they do with many people in their own parties; one reason American politics is increasingly spiteful and stupid is because we’re speaking in terms—right-wing and left-wing, liberal and conservative, even socialist and capitalist—that have become outmoded. There are socialist populists and socialist internationalists, right-wing populists and right-wing internationalists, and on and on.
— Read on reason.com/2019/04/12/steve-bannons-economic-nationalism-is-th/

Futures Fade China PMI Euphoria After Trump Restarts Trade War With Brazil, Argentina

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Top Overnight News from Bloomberg

The House this week begins the solemn task of deciding whether to bring impeachment articles against President Donald Trump, faced with a sharply divided American public, a compressed timetable and doubts about how and if the White House will participate
Peter Navarro, the self-described “bad cop” of Trump administration economic policy, wants to shake up the World Trade Organization
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government was thrown into crisis after Germany’s Social Democrats redrew the country’s political map by electing a new leadership seen as a threat to the survival of their coalition; Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party told the new leadership that there will be no renegotiation of the terms of their alliance
The Labour Party gained on the ruling Conservatives in four of five polls with two weeks until the U.K. election, with one of them signaling a possible hung parliament
First it was India and South Korea. Now Japan and New Zealand are joining Asia Pacific’s fiscal stimulus bandwagon, raising concerns for bond investors who will be asked to fund the attempt to re-ignite growth
For years, OPEC ignored the rise of the U.S. shale industry and came to regret its mistake. Now, the group is making another bold gamble on America’s oil revolution: that its golden age is over
— Read on www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-fade-china-pmi-euphoria-after-trump-restarts-trade-war-brazil-argentina

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