https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_International_Corporation
Business International Corporation (BI) was a publishing and advisory firm dedicated to assisting American companies in operating abroad. It was founded in 1953. It organized conferences, and worked with major corporations. It had ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Former president Barack Obama worked there as a college graduate. In 1986, Business International was acquired by the Economist Group in London, and it eventually merged with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
In the late summer of 1983, future United States President Barack Obama interviewed for a job at Business International Corporation. He worked there for “little more than year.”[3] As a research associate in its financial services division, he edited Financing Foreign Operations, a global reference service, and wrote for Business International Money Report, a weekly financial newsletter.[4] His responsibilities included “interviewing business experts, researching trends in foreign exchange, following market developments. . . . He wrote about currency swaps and leverage leases. . . . Obama also helped write financial reports on Mexico and Brazil”.[5]
Barack Obama was, in part, responsible for the publication of a special BI report advising clients on how to conduct financial management in the hyper inflationary and Byzantine financial regulatory period in Brazil in the early 1980s. The report was entitled Financial Action Report: Survival Financial Management in Brazil. The report published in 1984 discussed such issues as “Choosing Cruzeiro or Dollar Financing”, “the Inter-Company Market: Alternative to Bank Financing”, “The Effectiveness of Government Hedging Instruments”, “Leading and Lagging International Trade Payments”, “Blocked Funds” among many other treasury and cash management topics.[citation needed]
The preface of the report states “Barack Obama, assistant manager, conducted the interviews and wrote up the results” in the report.[6]
A 1977 New York Times article mentioned Business International as one of the lesser known of 22 news organizations found to have employed journalists who were also working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[7] Elliott Haynes “said his father, Eldridge Haynes, had provided cover for four C.I.A. employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960.”[7]
Someone else wrote those articles on the Brazilian economy. Obama was not capable.