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The central bank wanted the peso to weaken, so if it is weakening, one of their incentives to cut rates is no longer there.


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BERTRAND RUSSELL An individual human existence should be like a river
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BERTRAND RUSSELL Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which morali...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard su...
BERTRAND RUSSELL What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are ha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this d...
BERTRAND RUSSELL An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintell...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indub...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
BERTRAND RUSSELL One must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he fi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by...
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