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To: bentway who wrote (79993)	6/27/2018 3:59:54 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 363425

Yup! Hard stretch to call what they have in Russia a "market economy".

To: bentway who wrote (79993)	6/27/2018 6:24:12 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 363425

Even so, it's not a communist, government controlled economy. There are only two kinds of economies: government or market based. An oligarch is simply a non-government person who exerts strong control over a particular sector of the marketplace. His strength thwarts the competition. How is that any different from a Mark Zuckerberg? Facebook has no competition. We are either members or we aren't. Similarly, Bill Gates once fit the definition of an oligarch before the anti-trust lawsuit took away his lock on the market for operating systems.