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As many businessmen pointed out to me during my trip, Brazil's size also gives it another built-in advantage that those other countries lack: a big internal market of nearly 200 million potential consumers.
Over the weekend, the Senate committee, led by Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, released internal Goldman emails that suggest the company was positioning itself to take advantage of a market drop even though it was packaging securities and selling them to clients who had the opposite view.
People who want to take advantage of this year's gift-tax exemption should beware of one giant constraint: The Internal Revenue Service will deny tax benefits to a trust if the person who sets it up retains control, either himself or through an agent.