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<text id=93TT1172>
<title>
Mar. 15, 1993: Who's Next!
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 20
BUSINESS
Who's Next!
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<body>
<p>Revolving doors at Brazil's Finance Ministry
</p>
<p> Standard economic principles rarely apply in Brazil. But one
law has stood the test of time: the length of a Finance
Minister's tenure is inversely proportional to the rate of
inflation. With prices rising 28% a month, President Itamar
Franco put Finance Minister Paulo Haddad on the firing line,
berating him and criticizing his policies in public. Haddad, who
had barely 10 weeks to settle into the job, resigned and was
replaced by former Transport Minister Eliseu Resende. He is the
third Finance Minister since Franco took office five months ago
and Brazil's ninth in the past eight years.
</p>
<p> At his first press conference the new Minister, not an
economist but an engineer, said that what Brazil needed was
some "genetic engineering of the numbers." To nervous
businessmen that sounded ominously like a another price freeze.
Resende firmly denied that he has any miracle cures in mind. But
if he hopes to keep his job for very long, Resende will have to
move fast to placate his impatient boss and rescue his
inflation-weary countrymen. For the record: over the past 25
years prices have risen 1,825,059,944,842.56%.
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</article>
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