[lbo-talk] Bearzilla! -- Putins Economy Eight Years On

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 15 22:18:16 PDT 2007


Go to any store in Russia and walk around. :)

Well, any non-electronics store, that doesn't sell software. That stuff is imports. Cars are about 60% imports IIRC. Anyway, who really cares? Only right-wingers say "poo, Chavez is only able to do what he's doing because of high oil prices!"

--- "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:


> By all means let the revelry continue, but is there
> really anything going
> well besides the increase in revenues from resource
> rents? I don't doubt
> it takes some acumen to manage energy productioin
> and export, but
> what about the rest of the economy? Does Russia
> product anything
> else that the rest of the world -- or Russians --
> want to buy?
>
> mbs

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