In thinking about how to set fines, it helps to start from the extremes.

ECONOMIST: Free exchange

In the 1980s this meant visitors could be forgiven for thinking they had arrived on the set of a wacky sitcom, perhaps made for the Central American market, in which the actors, all speaking American with a Latin twang, were masquerading as the nation's public figures.

ECONOMIST: Corazon Aquino

Too set in their ways, the thinking goes.

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