Reflections

– About the Brazilian risk being lower than the US risk
– About our cognitive abilities
– About gulping frogs
About the Brazilian risk being lower than the US risk

Brazilian debt securities saw their risk rate decrease to 41.2 basis points, while the US debt stood at 49.7 points. For the first time in history, as of June 2011, the Brazilian risk is lower than the US risk.

Guido Mantega

About our cognitive abilities

Each person has eight cognitive abilities he/she can develop to a greater or lesser extent: linguistic, musical, body kinaesthetic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.

Howard Gardner

About gulping frogs

Politics is the art of gulping frogs without making faces.

Carlos Fuentes