The article When the chips are down published recently by The Economist featured a table with recent Big Mac Index data that shows how Brazil has become a very expensive destination. The index is a a semi-humorous attempt to compare living costs throughout the world, by comparing the cost of a single product, the Big [...]
There are at least three websites informing the approximate cost of taxi rides in Brazil. While each one of them presents approximate prices, they are handy tools to help you have an idea how how much a taxi ride will set you back. The three pages make use of Google Maps and as well as [...]
A vitamin-enriched real – the Brazilian currency, reached on Friday an all-time high against the dollar. Not since 1999 had a real bought so many dollars. On Friday, 1 US dollar would buy you 1,5895 reais. 1 euro would buy 2,5194 reais (I’m mentioning here the “comercial” quotation of the dollar, for more info read [...]
As Florianópolis is a larguish island with scores of towns and villages, there are considerable price differences between one place and another, even when there are quite near each other. The supermarket chain Imperatriz has a website where you can check out its weekly promotions. For as long as the page stays online, it is [...]
The Brazilian government’s agency responsible for fuel, the Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis better known as ANP, has a useful tool on its website where you can look up the average prices for fuel all throughout the Brazilian territory: Levantamento de preços. [As usual on the websites of a government that calls [...]
Brazilian Real Exchange Rate