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Morten’s Column
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Economics in Soros = economics in “real life”
It has been a quite turbulent time for the Baltic to ensure a guest lecture by the Prime Minister or
economies in general, for Latvia's in particular and the Finance Minister??? Well, I better not think
certainly also for this columnist since the last issue about it – have already had enough excitement for a
of The Insider. To put it mildly, actually….. decade or two…... In the meantime, however, I shall
But I was obviously very pleased to see that it gave enjoy the fact that living here for me is like being in
our school an opportunity to invite Bank of Latvia an economics laboratory – things keep happening
governor, Ilmârs Rimðçviès, to provide a guest and I can (mostly) explain them using economic
lecture. Most delightful to me, however, was the theory: Inflation, current account deficit, growth,
fact that this provides an opportunity to show that wage increases, consumption boom etc. etc.
people from “real life” actually discuss the exact Ahhhh! Spring is here and that is great! But even
same issues and variables that so often are better, lots of intriguing economics issues are
portrayed on the blackboard, be it in looming – 2007 indeed looks promising from an
Macroeconomics or European Studies. economist's point of view!
I wonder what sort of article I should write in order
2|INSIDER May 2007