Mac Margolis

Adoptive Carioca via N. England. Author, editor, opinionator on Brazil & beyond. @WashingtonPost @LATimes. Ex @bopinion @estadao @Newsweek @TheEconomist

[Lúcia Guimarães @luciaguimaraes]

Gravação, em Roma, da trilha sonora de Por Um Punhado de Dólares (1965) de Ennio Morricone.

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

Ouch

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

OMG you won't see ON FOX News for sure:

French NATO General Yakovleff:

Joining Trump in the Strait of Hormuz is "like buying a ticket for the Titanic after hitting the iceberg"

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

As Brazilians kick back and indulge in another Carnaval, what's that sound coursing over the web & radio? Gospel, of course. Christian devotional music is the 2d most popular genre after sertanejo. Cue the new Brrazilian songbook. https://t.co/TZFBj4lo2E

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on Epstein’s helpful mega-famous friends - who just didn’t care that he went to jail for soliciting minors

https://t.co/XEL00y21q2

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

@jcorrales2011 Excellent précis

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

Tribunal do estado da Califórnia começa a testar os limites dos oligeeks das redes sociais, para quem vale tudo em nome do algoritmo. @luciaguimaraes analisa o tema, seus protagonistas e os danos colaterais que se multiplicam. https://t.co/5vSEs5cOQF

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

Fighting organized crime, Brazilian pres. Lula insists, takes smarter policing not blunt force. Brazilians demur. With elections looming, he's now recalibrating his message for meaner times & voters spooked by the specter of lawlessness. @andrewrosati https://t.co/J1xJlew2s8

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Scottish comedian Lewis MacLeod just did a Donald Trump impression so accurate it feels like evidence.

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

Gracias, maestro!

[Tim Padgett @TimPadgett2]

Fascinating @NatGeo piece by the ever-insightful #Brazil watcher @macmargolis about the #sertanejo music boom.https://t.co/0qU0hY9cdV via @NatGeo

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

That girl from Ipanema? Now she comes with rhinestones, a Stetson, and a playlist that is turning Brazil inside out. Welcome to the land of Sertanejo.
With the fabulous @photoluisadorr
https://t.co/UQn7nfTJeE

[Francisco Rodríguez @frrodriguezc]

Back in March, President Trump imposed the same 25% secondary tariff on countries purchasing Venezuelan oil. The tariff was impracticable and was never actually put into effect. The Venezuelan executive order, in fact, delegated the determination of which countries to impose a tariff on to the Secretary of State. China, however, continued buying Venezuelan oil, and Secretary Rubio never made the determination necessary to impose a 25% tariff on China.

Taxing the trade of countries that do business with Iran or Venezuela attempts to extend the concept of secondary sanctions—that is, imposing sanctions on a foreign firm that does business with a sanctioned entity—to the level of countries. But that effectively means penalizing huge levels of trade without a clear threshold as to what levels of purchases would trigger it. It also assumes that a country has control over the foreign trade of its firms and individuals, which is generally not the case. As a result, the punishment—taxing all of a nation’s trade—is so disproportionate to the activity that it seeks to restrict, namely any purchase by someone in that country from Iran, that it makes little sense to impose it in practice.

Most likely, the 25% tariff on countries trading with Iran will meet the same fate as the one imposed on Venezuela: it will never be implemented.

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

For the record. https://t.co/DOREqSsENO

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

@tunkuv @WSJFreeEx 🦉

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

@tunkuv @WSJFreeEx just a footnote: I actually met the man and embedded with his crew patrolling NY underground (many more years ago than I'd care to admit). He was leaner, meaner and not nearly so funny back then. Your chat made me laugh

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

@WSJForero @WSJ great reporting

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

Raffish psychopaths, grifters, damaged nerds, aristocratic has-beens and overgrown underachievers who carom from ennui to meltdown... Young Brazilians can't get enough of horror fiction writer Raphael Montes. https://t.co/EIDZsJguYQ

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

Yes, everybody hates Maduro — but Trump should not turn drugs into Venezuela's WMD
On the money, como siempre, from @TimPadgett2 https://t.co/FxRwTQxbFF

[Mac Margolis @macmargolis]

As lideranças e a massa (falida) cinzenta: Como os governantes protagonizam a perda cognitiva política global. No texto perfeito da @luciaguimaraes . https://t.co/dtON8pL6vv

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

It's a cult. 😳👇