Mudanças na taxa Selic: uma análise da cobertura de o Estado de S. Paulo e folha de S. Paulo

Abstract

Inflation has always been a relevant topic to the lives of Brazilian people, gaining more importance during the 1980s, when it reached percentages extremely high and stood at 1972.9% per year in 1989.Although it does not reach this high rates nowadays, the inflation is closely monitored by the government and the population, and rise in prices creates an pressure on the government do to something to prevent this.The increased in interest rates is not the only way to control the inflation, but is currently used by the brazilian government, and it is about this issue that this works is about: how the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo approach this raise in interest rates during the first seven months of Dilma Roussef’s government and if both tend to give more space in their reporting, for interviews and comments from entities related to consumer and industry, which normally defend the reduction of interest, or for banks and financial markets, which tend to defend to increase the rate