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Short Publications - The Soviet Collapse
aei.org - 12/7/2008
Short Publications - The Soviet Collapse
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On the Issues Download file This document is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. A version of this speech was presented at AEI on November 13, 2006. April 2007 Yegor Gaidar is director of the Institute for Economies in Transition in Moscow. Between 1991 and 1994, he was acting prime minister ...

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toddstrade — Collapse of the Soviet Union due to the price of Grain and Oil.

Readings: Mexican bust, Russian grain & oil, Taleb on economics
GalaTime — ... will slow to 1.5% this year and tumble to somewhere between zero and 0.7% in 2009. In November Fitch put Mexican government foreign and local currency debt on “negative outlook” (though the ratings are still investment grade). Eighty percent of Mexican exports–$240 billion this year, up 10% from 2007–go to the U.S., where shoppers aren’t spending. AEI: The Soviet Collapse - Grain and Oil (dated) Russia, ...

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