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Brazil Economy

NPR's Nina Teicholz repotrs from Rio de Janeiro that Brazil's effort to end hyper-inflation has created other problems: increasing business bankruptcies, rising unemployment, and a serious loss of consumer buying power. Economists lay much of the blame on the so-called Real (r

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