You're asking a question outside of my sphere of knowledge, but if it's worth anything few Russians have bank accounts at all and most homes (apartments that is) are completely owned by them, since they were handed out by the Yeltsin government.
It's kind of weird -- the banking crisis is all over the magazine covers, but I haven't heard anybody actually talking about it.
--- On Fri, 10/17/08, Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why not let McCain win?
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 11:05 PM
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Chris Doss
> <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Moreover, there aren't a whole lot of Russians
> under the age of 70 who want
> > to return to the Soviet system.
> >
>
> Nor I wager even any who are too sentimental about life
> either during the
> collapse of the SU or during their default and crisis in
> the late '90's.
>
> My detail knowledge is subpar, but are the Russians
> leveraged up the wazoo
> on subprime debt too? Was Lenin, what, selling us the rope
> on which to
> hang...?
>
> Never mind.
>
>
> DC
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