The discussion in Brazil around extending emergency fiscal support reinforces our view that the government will ultimately cast aside the spending cap. That could put the public debt trajectory onto an unsustainable upwards path and, were that to happen, it’s likely that policymakers would turn to financial repression policies to prevent borrowing costs from surging. That might come at the expense of higher inflation and a weaker real.
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