Linette Lopez – Business Insider, 1/28/2015
In the past year or so Brazil’s economy has gone from one of magnificent growth to one of incredible disappointment, and two stories out today especially embody the epic scale of the country’s fall from grace.
One story is about a man, the other is about a company.
The man is Eike Batista — once the 7th richest man in the world aggressively angling for the top spot, he seemed to have everything. He was the man who went into the jungles of the Amazon and came out with a fortune built on his holding company, EBX. He raced speed boats, owned Brazilian jets, married a model, and made friends with world leaders.
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