In today's Articles and Interviews selection, Trustee Arminio Fraga speaks to Valor Econômico about the difficulty of long-term investments in Brazil due to the lack of a good democratic environment. CEBRI Senior Fellow Ilona Szabó lists important issues to observe in 2022, such as the presidential elections in Brazil, the end of the pandemic, and the growing tension between China and the US, in her weekly Folha de S. Paulo column. In the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, Economist Roberto Macedo analyzes an article written by Trustee Roberto Teixeira da Costa, published on November 25th in the same newspaper, about recent data on the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product (GDP).