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Why Trump’s Puerto Rico bailout was DOA

Puerto Rico’s debt has been a major problem for years. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump supported a solution: We have to look at their whole debt structure…we’re going to have to wipe that out. You can say goodbye to that. I don’t know if it’s Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to that. It only took ...

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Brazil’s narrative of growing equality is oversold

Not so long ago, Brazil seemed to be near a turning point. Latin America’s largest nation wasn’t just growing and generating jobs; it was finally poised, it seemed, to close one of the world’s most notorious gaps between rich and poor. Out went the old trope of “Belindia”—Brazil as a wealthy Belgium ringed by a vast and desperate India—and in ...

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Google new phones tap software, to chase Apple

Bloomberg Google introduced new versions of its Pixel smartphones that lack key hardware features of the latest devices from Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. But the internet giant is trying to make up for that with tighter software and services integration. The upgraded phones were presented at a press conference in San Francisco. The Pixel 2 has a 5-inch ...

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