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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggersh who wrote (44389)	2/8/2012 2:52:24 PM
From: Real Man	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71423

> Was the USSR ever worse?-vbg- In the USSR hidden rape of the people was replaced with explicit rape in 1991. The communist elite was not happy they did not get to keep their big cars and benefits once they were replaced, so they changed the regime. Now they could steal as much as they wanted and keep the loot. Crony capitalism is so much better! -g- Anyhow, the economy recovered due to tough measures, but it is still roughly the same as before - based heavily on export of natural resources. Price of oil and natural gas (in Europe) soared, so did the Russian Economy -g-