In Latvia The Economy Is A Police Matter
by Anorak | 1st, December 2008
LATVIA. It’s getting to be like the UK:
Well, times are hard all over the world, but Latvia has introduced a new twist in dealing with the crisis in the financial markets; Dmitrijs Smirnovs was arrested by the Security Police for taking a pessimistic view of the Lat.
Since Latvia has a free press this promptly became front-page news, which probably did rather more damage than Mr Smirnov’s original comments, and he’s a free man. Oh, and Latvia is negotiation with the IMF for some assistance with the emphatically wonderful state of its financial markets…
Damian Green makes no comment…
– Chenier
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