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MONDAY DECEMBER 01
Latvia's Creative Response To Financial Panic Other governments might be blowing billions on fancy bailout schemes, but Latvia has a much cheaper way of suppressing panic: target the troublemakers. Latvia's Security Police has taken to detaining downbeat economists like Dmitrijs Smirnovs for "unpatriotic" criticism of Latvia's financial system. If this sounds not a little bit familiar, Latvians reassure us that the practice isn’t anything like that of a certain Soviet security agency: after all, the press is still free! December 2008New User?Sign up to get free access to TraderDaily.com
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