Commentary The word “weaponized” has rapidly sprung into widespread usage in the last year or two. The dollar has been weaponized as an instrument of foreign policy. The Department of Justice has been weaponized by identifying parents concerned about what their children are being taught in schools as “domestic terrorists” (even as the DOJ has…

Though the ongoing mass protests in Brazil are a cause of worry for investors, many are more concerned about the Lula government’s socialist economic policies, which they fear could worsen the fiscal spending situation and already-high inflation. Brazil has been seeing mass protests against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ever since he assumed power…