2 more months to go and we will know who will host the Olympics in 2016. Officially Tokyo, Madrid, Chicago and Rio de Janeiro are still in the running, but it became clear the last months that the battle is between Chicago and Rio. If you do some research, you’ll realize to which extent the decission between Chicago and Rio de Janeiro is of an unseen geopolical dimension.
Chicago has lost some ground lately because of the politcal games that the USOC (United States Olympic Committee) is playing. Also, Chicago is virtually bankrupt and many citizens of the town are opposing against money being spend on organizing the Olympics.
The news agency AFP reported last week that Rio made huge advances since IOC member Carloz Nuzman made a “passionate and effective” presentation to the European Olympic Committee in Istanbul last November. Aided to a large part by Brazilian president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, they have built on that steadily and, reports AFP, with apparently a vibrant economy and the funds in place they are ready to meet all the requirements of the IOC.
The real decission will be in the hands of the Belgian IOC president Jacques Rogge. Rogge leaves office in 2013 and he really wants to leave a legacy. The man succeeded with Beijing hosting a succesful games despite universal scepticism. What better legacy could Rogge leave than seeing South America win the right to host the Games for the first time.
Bloomberg reported last Friday that Brazil’s retail sales rose again more than expected. Retail sales went up 1,7% from the previous month, significant stronger than the 1,2% which was forecasted.
Most surprising was the increase in the sale of computer equipment which went up 15,6% compared to last year. If you take the broader index which includes automobile and construction materials, the index went up 10,2%. On a monthly basis, the broader index went up 6,5%, the biggest increase since its launch in 2007.
Good news is that the central bank remains cautious. Which is good; central banks which keep a strong eye on future inflation targeting have our preference.
We wrote a while ago on the massive amount of Internet users in Brazil; New Scientist just published an updated report, Brazil now 67.500.000n Internet users, that is more than Germany, the UK or India.
The most surprising number is however the growth pace of Internet users in Brazil.
In Germany there were 47.200.000 internet users in 2004, today Germany has 52.500.000 Internet users; that is a modest growth of 11,2% in 5 years.
Brazil counted 19.300.000 Internet users in 2004, today Germany 67.500.000 Internet users; that is a growth of 249,7% and this is an accelarating growth; only in the last 2,5 years the amount of Brazilian Internet users grew 160,6%. And saturation is far from being reached, even today only 26% of Brazil’s population is connected and with the growing middle class the amount of Internet users will continue to grow exponentially. In less then 18 months from here Brazil will have more than 50% of the amount of Internet users that the United States has.
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