Messages from Captain Obvious. What good is supposed to come about through tonnes of deliberate lies and utter lawlessness taking advantage of violent thugs and their addiction to harass, bully and humiliate the weaker? How’s capturing buildings and the act of civil defiance in Kiev different from that in Donetsk and other East Ukrainian places? […]
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“Catching-up in some ten years is often mentioned but it is just not going to happen and the labour market development is one of the reasons,” Morten Hansen is writing on Ir.lv here. Latvia’s economy is heading toward a miserable future unless Latvia does all of the following at the same time: (1) cracks down
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Inguna Sudraba. Avots: LETA Es vēroju pastiprināto uzmanību, kuru Ingunai Sudrabai velta mediji. Šķiet, pirms priekšpēdējām un pēdējām vēlēšanām Sudrabas kundzei klāt labinājušies krievu mediji, kas ļoti, pat ļoti izskatījās pēc vervēšanas un pierunāšanas „precēties” ar Saskaņu, bet varbūt tie mediji vienkārši, kā vienmēr, apkalpoja Saskaņas pasūtījumus – šoreiz ieskalot savu adeptu smadzenēs tieši Sudrabu.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIl212tBPk] Source: OECD.org Izskatās dramatiski. US, eurozona, Japāna, attīstītā pasaule zaudē pozīcijas, nozīmi, vietu pasaules spēku samērojumā. Pagaidām vēl ne, bet skaidrs, ka pavisam drīz, jau pēc gadiem desmit dzīvosim pasaulē ar daudz izteiktāku Ķīnas un non-OECD valstu dominanci. Par daudz ko var diskutēt, protams. Taču Ķīna būs lielākā ekonomika. Un jau sen
Konkurētspēja. Latvijai ir 6% Read More »
It’s worthwhile to keep your eyes open. This graph shows what Valdis Dombrovskis has done for Latvia. Here we have the dynamics of industrial output in Latvia since Jan 2005. Dombrovskis’s first cabinet was sworn in late February 2009, when Latvia’s economy hit the bottom. It has kept growing ever since and no one knows for how
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Much of the ongoing political debate in Latvia is on the deteriorating demography, Latvia is shrinking. More and more people are lamenting their no-pension old age. Here is a glimpse of what Johnny Åkerholm, President of the Nordic Investment Bank, said recently at a seminar on the future of the Nordic-Baltic integration. The basis for
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Copied from Riga.in. My compliments to this terrific resource! Otherwise the pic has obviously been taken at a venue hosted by the Latvian state railway company. I couldn’t resist to post this image, otherwise widely known in the web at least in Latvia, or to people curious about the history of the railway transport in
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Why is someone better off at producing hi-tech and why Latvia only seems to be good at digging holes? Morten Hansen is rightly pinpointing the disadvantages of the Latvian economic design: the lack of modern skills, inadequate supply of physical capital and the burden of an inflated public sector. Continuing the same logic, poor skills
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