Put me on the rip it apart list.
What I find Russia to be is to be the perfect demonstration of how important confidence and attitude is in an economy. I still find it really amazing how fast the GNP fell to nearly nothing as they switched to capitalism. The factories (albeit aging) are there, the resources are there, so why did it collapse just like that and seems to look like it'd never come back up. Most of the others seemed to have more or less recovered...
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