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Character: Rates (Selic)
The Selic is Brazil's benchmark interest rate — and, in the Radar's archive, it works as the slow backdrop against which the regimes take shape.
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Where Rates (Selic) appears
- MarqueeThe house in the dark: the structure's floor at the end of 2022 preceded a year of discord
- MarqueeThe fever of 2025 — when euphoria descended to meet the structure
- MarqueeTwo clocks telling different times: December 2024
- MarqueeThe 2016 bottom: structure turned before mood — and long before rates
- MarqueeThe 2013 taper tantrum: the imported shock the Brazilian regime absorbed
- MarqueeThe three alarms of August 2015 — and the bottom that wasn't the bottom
- Comparison2013 vs 2024: when the currency leads — and what that does (or doesn't) to the regime
- Comparison2022 vs 2015: two slow domestic contractions
- ComparisonCOVID × August 2015: the same diagnosis, opposite anatomies
- ComparisonCrisis of 2015 × the 2016 bottom: what separates panic from inflection
- ComparisonThe 2016 bottom × March 2020: two recompositions, two clocks
- DerivativeStructure leads mood: what 2016 taught about who arrives first
- DerivativeThe Selic at 15% and the fading euphoria
- DerivativeThe Selic pinned at 14.25%: the rate that never came to the rescue
- DerivativeThe first rate cut: the Selic confirmed what the market had already read
- DerivativeReal rates in anomaly: the rare premium of late 2024
- DerivativeWhen the shock only raises the price of money: the taper that became Selic, not crisis