Cris Faga/NurPhoto via Getty Images
I read what financial market sharks say about Lula — and I laugh to myself, even when I wear a t-shirt. I laugh so I don’t cry
I read the opinions of financial market tycoons about the Lula government and I can’t help but laugh discreetly, even when I’m wearing a simple t-shirt. I laugh so as not to join those who cry in this sea of tears.
Being involved in making money does not guarantee wisdom in all aspects, contrary to what many believe. It’s the same type of people who associate being a journalist with having paranormal abilities.
I, for example, who don’t have the talent to get rich and don’t have that much interest in the subject (one of the most tedious things is a conversation where only money is talked about), I met many foolish individuals in the financial market. Interestingly, fools in relation to politics, for example.
Mr. Luís Stuhlberger, for example, manager of one of the most profitable funds in the country, now says that he “penets himself for having believed that the PT would be fiscally serious”. In other words, he voted for Lula, believing that monogamy is respected in a bacchanal.
He has a fortune of more than 2 billion dollars, has a Chagall hanging on the living room wall, among other valuable paintings that lose their shine in front of the magnificent work. It displays that cultural veneer that would be desirable to the rest of the Brazilian economic elite, one of the most ignorant in the world.
He reads newspapers (I still consider this a positive point), he has immediate access to all the important people, but he believed that Lula would be fiscally responsible, imagine that.
Where will Luís Stuhlberger do penance for voting for Lula? In New York? In London? In Zurich? In Luxembourg? Poor thing, there are so few options.
He can do penance wherever he wants, but those who will suffer the consequences of Lula’s fiscal irresponsibility will be Brazilian workers, with economic slowdown and inflation.
Just like the manager of the Green Fund (out of anger too, it seems), other big names in the financial market fell for Lula’s trickery. Based on what? In nothing. Or worse, in a negative retrospect. They weren’t smart even with their own money. Result: they will have to work (just a little) to adjust expectations. As for us, dear reader, the expectation is that door there, where it is written that whoever enters must leave hope outside.
