September 1, 2004
Volume 9 • Number 9
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FLYING DOWN TO RIO: A LOOK AT A FEW OF
BRAZIL’S BEST COMPANIES FOR INVESTORS
It’s the 7th Annual Back-to-College Issue: How to Plan
for YOUR Kids’ Futures
The Dark Side of Socialism: When Leftist Politics
Goes Out of Control
The Tale of Elmer Bernstein and Marlboro
The Second New Deal is coming in eight weeks. America is in freeze-frame mode, waiting out the days til the
election. Market Witch readers already know the outcome. So let’s visit Brazil this month and study investment
opportunities there while we wait. Meanwhile, the American economy is in a shambles, wages are stagnant, and
what’s left of the middle class is shouldering a larger tax burden. Costs for health care, housing, tuition, gas and
food are through the roof. The Congressional Budget Office confirmed that Americans in the top 1% income
group got 33% of the Bush tax-cut money. Greenspan’s two Fed rate hikes over the summer confirm that the
Fed believes, as we do, that Bush will be thrown from office and following the election the economy will begin to
recover and heat up as a much more centrist government begins to help the American people get back on their
feet.
The economic and social split continues to widen as we develop two Americas and there’s a surge toward a
civil war mentality which is still only verbal but may get hotter and sharper and more vicious as the election
approaches. Will there be some sort of civil war in the US as there was during the 1860s? No. The Republic will
A-PD