Russian demographics

[Brad De Long]

>alec ramsdell wrote:
>
>>And she notes: "Now, the IMF just gave Russia $22 billion. . . .
>>Everyone's ecstatic . . . the government is patting itself on the back,
>>and now life can go on as it was pre-crisis."
>
>And the kleptocrats' foreign bank accounts will probably swell by at least
>$11 billion.
>

Nahh. Only $3 billion at most...


>Stephen Shenfield of Brown U's Watson Center has a very convincing paper
>listing 8 reasons why Russia is bound to get worse. When I interviewed him
>last week, he said he'd added a 9th - the government is planning to boost
>the taxes on people's private plots.

Oh f***, oh f***, oh f***...