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Impressionné par la manière dont l’aristocratie britannique s’était convertie à la liberté politique en assurant une transition paisible vers la démocratie et en s’ouvrant vers les autres classes, permettant ainsi de légitimer ses privilèges et de conserver une structure de société de classes tout en accompagnant les réformes politiques, il fut
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)

For more moderate government supporters, who had voted for Bolsonaro mainly because he represented the best hope of finally defeating the threat from the political left, two ministers in particular provided reassurance. Moro, as we have already noted, remained the most popular minister in Bolsonaro’s cabinet, even though his first year in the
... See moreRichard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro
Securitization had produced the most toxic financial assets in the world – Fabrice Tourre was just one of an army of financial engineers manufacturing them – and had spread them far beyond the originating banks; revealingly, the near-total collapse of securitization in the course of 2008 was a key feature of the crisis.