Brazil

Is Brazil, as the theory goes, too big to fail? We may never know, since whenever Latin America's largest economy gets in trouble, it also gets bailed out. Last year, the International Monetary Fund sent in $15 billion to protect Brazil from the aftershocks of Argentina's economic collapse. Last week, the IMF doubled up, putting together a $30 billion rescue package to both stabilize the troubled Brazilian economy and boost international faith in the rest of Latin America. The IMF hopes the package — its largest-ever in dollar terms — will break Brazil's downward spiral of plummeting currency values, rising debt...