Goldman Sachs Calls Brazil a ‘Mess’ After Warning on Depression
- Alberto Ramos says the crisis in Brazil hasn't reached peak
- Brazil's economy is set for deepest recession in a century
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the crisis in Brazil will get worse before it gets better after the bank last year warned that Latin America’s largest economy was being dragged into a depression.
“Brazil is a mess,” Alberto Ramos, the chief Latin America economist at Goldman Sachs, said at an event organized by the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce in New York on Wednesday. “Number 10 used to mean Pele. Now it’s inflation rate, unemployment rate and the popularity rate of the president."