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The political obsession with a better exchange-rate regime amounts to an invitation to private markets to make large amounts of money by betting against those central banks that are pressed by politicians to take a particular view of the exchange rate.

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I pressed on, focusing on one push at a time.

I've pressed 5,000 bricks in one day from the dirt beneath my feet and built a tractor in six days.

However, if I ask your minds to focus currently on Pakistan, and I ask you to think of the symbols and the leaders for democracy in Pakistan today, you'll be hard pressed to think beyond perhaps the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

EA: So all these times when he ended up going to jail, were charges pressed or did he just get taken to jail?

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