[lbo-talk] Russia's Stabilization Fund

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun May 13 12:17:06 PDT 2007


BTW, the Stabilization Fund is currently large enough to maintain the current federal budget for four years at an oil price of zero (0) dollars a barrel.

Starting this fund was a good idea. :)

--- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> ===============================================
> I think your characterization of the tighter social
> spending policy of the
> government is accurate. Your questions are
> interesting ones, and Gref and
> Putin would answer them, as I suspect they
> previously have - evasively, in
> the abstract, as "some mix of of the above". So
> would most of us on the
> outside who haven't an politician's interest in
> doing so - in our case,
> evasion by default. These aren't questions of
> principle; they're practical
> questions: How can they be answered responsibly
> without an intimate
> familiarity with the current state and functioning
> of the Russian economy
> and of the likely economic and political
> implications of the various
> measures being proposed? They'd be subject to
> ongoing debate and evolution
> for any reforming government, and you'd have to make
> your way across the
> river by carefully feeling for the stones.
>
> But maybe I'm too tentative. How do you answer your
> questions?
>
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