Donald Trump last failure about the abrogation of Obamacare promises some others. It is highly likely that the protectionist measures he is thinking about and which were the significant times of his electoral campaign will never be adopted. The transformation of the American tax system, except if VAT is adopted, to penalize imports and reduce enterprises charges, will not happen, as other than symbolic measures against Mexico. The reason is simple: United States has more to lose than to win in going in that direction. Imports taxation would penalize American consumers. Retaliatory measures adopted by the countries which are targeted ...

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After two gloomy years, Brazil should experience an economic revival in 2017. For the first time since 2013 and the going down to hell of a country which had seen itself becoming among the top six economies in the world and whose GDP had surpassed UK one, signals of an improvement of its economy are now appearing. The deep recession which occurred in 2015 and 2016 with, both years, a GDP fall of 3,7%, could come to an end and leave the place to a modest growth in 2017 at around 1,5%. Political situation has been clarified and ...

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In a few days, two major agreements have been concluded between, regarding the first one, the three quarters of the world population and for the other one countries producing more than one third of the total oil extracted in the world. In New York, during United Nations General Assembly, it has been recorded that a sufficient number of countries has ratified the Paris Agreement, concluded at the end of COP 21, to permit to it to enter in application. In the same time, in Algiers, leaders of OPEC reached an agreement to cap their production. Fossil fuels combustion is the ...

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