We are living in the Wild West of On Demand TV and which section of the frontier a company commands will tell a lot about how prosperous its future will be.

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But most seem to accept that Brazil will need to build a prosperous future the hard way: cutting current spending to invest more in public infrastructure (a lot more), and, finally getting to grips with some regulation and red tape that probably does more to hurt Brazil's competitiveness than the high exchange rate.

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If we all loan a lot of money we don't have to each other, we will all be more prosperous.

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