Estonians trash their flash cars: can't make the lease payments
The most read post ever on this blog was "Hookers that cost too much, flash German cars and insolvent banks".
In it I predicted a future for the Baltic States where the middle class rioted and Swedbank (the Swedish bank most responsible for funding the bubble) was trashed either by depreciation caused default or just by default.
Anyway I love this story. An insurance company in Estonia is having troubles with customers trashing their flash cars because they can't make the lease payments.
It gets worse and worse and worse from here.
J
PS. I mentioned the geopolitics in the first post on this subject... I said I was "loudly calling the likely collapse of a politically sensitive country". Well now the Estonian press is actively speculating about a Russian takeover. I think it is unlikely - but do not forget the Bronze Soldier.
For those with a real interest I know enough history to be dangerous. My version comes from the perspective of some Jewish relatives who were holocaust survivors. My relatives saw the Baltic States as containing particularly enthusiastic Nazis. (They tend to site Lithuania over the others but I think that was bitter experience. Lithuania had a gruesomely effective holocaust). Whether the Balts were more enthusiastic Nazis than some other Europeans is something I have no real knowledge of. Indeed the initial Russian-Nazi treaties gave Lithuania to the Germans but the Lithuanians refused to participate in the invasion of Poland and passed to Rusian influence until the Nazis reinvaded...
The Russians still look on the march into the Baltic States as a liberation from Nazism. They revere their Bronze Soldier. Many Baltic people see the same Bronze Soldier as a symbol of Russian oppression.
When the Estonians moved the statute there were deadly riots. These wounds are still open.
My Jewish relatives however wound up living in an apartment building in Bondi Australia one floor above some post-war Lithuanian immigrants. They became firm friends . And both could see the other's point of view...