"It's deja vu all over againg." That memorable line was uttered in the early 1960s by the irrepressible Yogi Berra, former manager of the New York Yankees, as he watched teammates Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs in regular-season play. But the assessment is equally applicable these days to Latin America's largest economy. A year ago Institutional Investor noted that "Brazil's boom has gone bust-but only for the time being, analysts and market observers insist. High inflation, political uncertainty, a slowdown in the domestic economy, the potential fallout from the sovereign-debt crisis in Europe, fears of a double-dip recession in the U.S.
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