I’d be pretty shocked if HBO or any of its affiliates are licensed to originate commercial loans. They’d have to get a bank to originate the loan, then sell the loan to HBO.
Many Brazilians would point to that line as proof that the Worker’s Party’s policies have created an economy of dependence. But no one disputes that the effort worked: around 30 million Brazilians have been lifted out of poverty since the party took office in 2002, cutting that statistic more than in half, and…