Reveries

Watching Domburs’ Show while making some exercises, made me realise that Kampars’ voice is practically the same of Homer Simpson in ‘The Simpsons’ Brazilian version. Although an interesting discovery, this is not the most important thing one can realize watching tonight’s Kas Notiek Latvija. I just realized the guys are preparing one of the biggest [...]

One Saturday, after hearing a conference at SSE Riga, Jānis Ošlējs and I started to talk how would be great to have a conference discussing economic development beyond the ideological approaches common to Latvia. So, we started working on it, we added Jānis Grēviņš to the team, and here we are. The conference’s speakers are [...]

As I have no time to write now, I give you Quino, the excellent Argentinian cartoonist, and a day in the life of a Latvia’s civil-servant. Or of most of Latvia’s universities…

The general congress of Tautas Partija has taken place today (see pictures of the event on the left and below). In this ocasion, its propositions to fight the crisis were presented. It consists of ten points reflecting the needs/opinions of the people responsible for the current crisis. Generally speaking, they aren’t able to go beyond [...]

Development has been one of the most sensitive question in economics. However, in the last 40 years it hasn’t discussed properly, as reason gave place to fetish. The first point is that there is fashion in the Academy and it’s cyclical. Specifically about economics, in the capitalist block we have seen – in the last [...]

A revolutionary group in Brazil called MR-8 (Movimento Revolucionario 8 de outubro) because of the day Che Guevara was arrested in Bolivia, still exists and supports one of the worst Brazilian politician, Orestes Quercia. They concluded that Quercia is the only one able to make things in Brazil so bad, that people will end their [...]

Interesting article, but as usual, exaggerated. From the FT. Published: June 4 2009 20:10 | Last updated: June 4 2009 20:10 Latvia and its Baltic neighbours Estonia and Lithuania are going through their most severe economic crisis since the Soviet Union disintegrated. Their troubles matter beyond their own borders: they could trigger a new wave [...]

When I wrote back in 2006 (click here)  that Latvia would bankrupt because of the irresponsable economic policies, or better, because of the lack of any logic economic policy, everybody told me that I was wrong. They said that Latvia would forever face a strong and sustainable growth based on speculation with real estate actives [...]

Yesterday I had a wonderful evening at my good friend Veiko’s place. Nice sauna, nice beer and, most important, nice and intelligent conversation. We discussed a lot about the Latvian economy and how the government and the economic agents still don’t want to face the reality. As my flight to London is about 2 hours [...]