In June, the winter plays six of its lieutenant colonels into senior roles at the central bank. One of the regime's possible motives to resting control over the economy in this way is creating more space for patronage. The country's main business houses got rich under previous periods of military rule but they've spread their last decade diversifying their portfolios. So these business houses may resist hitching their wagons to yet another hunter.

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