Andrew Rosati

Andrew Rosati

January 14, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Brazil's Inflation Ends 2021 Above 10%, Testing Central Bank

The central bank's efforts have been complicated by costlier fuel, kinks in global supply chains and a series of extreme weather events, that have stoked food and raw material prices.

By Andrew Rosati

3 minute read

August 30, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Maduro Now Owns Venezuela's Economy — and Its Collapse

Venezuela's socialist regime has consolidated near-total political control after installing an all-powerful constituent assembly. Resolving the economic crisis and coming up with $3.5 billion for bond payments through November however will prove trickier.

By Andrew Rosati and Fabiola Zerpa

10 minute read

February 06, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Venezuela's New Iron-Fisted Boss Facing US Trafficking Probe

When Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela's new vice president, competed in student elections, his opponents said he brought in armed gangs to bully the competition. Then, they say, when he forgot to register for re-election he phoned the local political boss with a plan to rig the vote.

By Andrew Rosati and Fabiolas Zerpa

13 minute read

January 11, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Venezuela's Awful Socialist Economy Got Even Worse in 2016

Venezuelans have to navigate a labyrinth of lines to buy such staples as sugar or aspirin. They've gotten used to finding that the store shelves are empty, a frustration that sometimes boils over into looting. So they don't really need economic data to tell them that 2016 was a terrible year.

By Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg News

8 minute read

October 19, 2016 | Daily Business Review

These Harvard Economists Differ on How to Save Venezuela

Six months ago, with Venezuela hurtling toward calamity, one of its most renowned economists living in exile assembled a group of scholars with a decidedly unacademic goal: to save the country.

By Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg News

12 minute read

May 18, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A Day With the Buy-and-Flip Hustlers Who Rule in Venezuela

They are called bachaqueros and they start their day at 2 a.m. They line up and sell everything, even their place in line.

By Andrew Rosati Bloomberg News

10 minute read

January 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Venezuela Congress Shoots Down Maduro Bid for Decree Powers

President Nicolas Maduro failed to secure far-reaching powers he says he needs to address triple-digit inflation and Venezuela's deepest recession in over a decade as the National Assembly refused to pass his emergency economic decree bill.

By Andrew Rosati Bloomberg News

4 minute read