OF REALITY
No one else can doubt that the global economy, boosted by geopolitical decisions such as armed conflicts, especially in the troubled Middle East, by the growth and consolidation of Asian economies and by the belligerence of Russia, with the invasion, first of Crimea and then of Ukraine, has changed, along with the new US government, definitively. The world of yesterday, in which we live with a certain peace and with international trade under known and sometimes respected rules, no longer exists.
The tariff attack on the Brazilian economy is a fact. Discussing the reasons and looking for the culprits do not hide a new reality, raw and naked: our economy will be, regardless of the results and time, damaged. Easing the situation so as not to create panic is a thing of the government. Find the culprits too, even if it is incredible that in a foreign exchange speculation, open and public, that is, an attack on the Real, the control instruments have failed, which for you to exchange 10 dollars work perfectly. And the list of "evils" that can come has not been exhausted, such as those that can reach 2 million Brazilians in the United States.
This toxic tariff cloud, which changes the weather and temperature every day and for which economic and political meteorological instruments do not work, is a difficult reality to accept. After the storm comes the bonanza. Illusion. We must prepare both in macropolitical and economic terms for different times, in fact we are already late, starting with companies.
For politicians, the situation can serve very different and different purposes, including as a smokescreen, than for entrepreneurs. It's a summer dream that we won't be affected. We don't know how much and we are afraid of reality. It's a mess to look for new markets, because everyone is looking for new markets. And we don't have, according to Rostoff, new products for new markets. Our "new" market is Brazil, where the population, with the help of the government, throws more money on bets and is easy to go into debt with absurd interest. With the flight of productive investments, such as that of a Stelantis, which will no longer invest here, lost almost 3 billion dollars in the last quarter (and it was not the only one), we have to stimulate savings and investment and grow our productivity. Especially in the public sector, which is the highest cost for companies.
Incredibly, much is discussed what the government, which has already shown what it is capable of doing, especially when using this external event, not only by increasing taxes, creating more obstacles through changes in labor relations etc. etc., will do. But the time, sorry for the repetition, is for everyone to review the perception they had just a few months ago of their business, for the future. Your business is what matters and nothing else. Save yourself who can.