Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Investment in Russia and Eastern Europe -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Fraser who wrote (47)	4/8/1998 4:38:00 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1301

Wow! Didn't expect that kind of response. Anyway, I'll keep 'em posted right after I read 'em if I find them useful. I wonder what the next presidential election in Russia will do to the market. When one has to be out of Russia? (or short). Of course, everyone knows about this, so maybe it won't be as awful as it seems now. But it's unlikely, IMO. The market will be down depending on the percentage of votes communists get in the polls.... - and the danger is very real. Of course, it is highly unlikely that the communists will abolish private property (if they win -which is IMO unlikely, since huge money will be backing reformists), etc. - they will use it, since it is far more convenient for them than what they had before. Before, when they were are out, they lost their dachas, huge apartments, buying privileges, etc.. Now they can keep all that! But the country's growth will be delayed indefinitely without following strict IMF rules and doing further reforms. On a more optimistic note, it does not matter how people vote. It matters how you count - as comrade Stalin used to say. He-he. -Vi