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...benefits, he said Russians were asking a "fair question" when they wondered about what was happening. His answer: "We will do everything, everything in our power ... so that the collapses of the past years should never be repeated in our country." Says Alexander Kliment, a Russia analyst at the Eurasia Group in New York City: "The Russian leadership turned a blind eye to this crisis until it ended up staring them in the face...
...Bolivia analyst Erasto Almedia of the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group says automakers shouldn't panic. Morales may talk a big nationalist game, Almeida argues, but he always ends up accepting foreign investment and technological support that could give the car companies a foot in the lithium-production door. "The conditions exist for foreign investment and involvement in the lithium sector in Bolivia," Almeida contends, especially if Bolivia wants to expand beyond the initial pilot plant...
...Iranian budget deficits have soared and inflation is now a hefty 25% a year, according to Cliff Kupchan of risk consultancy Eurasia Group in Washington. Government officials are "digging a deeper hole, spending money they do not have," Kupchan says. Last November, 60 Iranian economists sent Ahmadinejad a letter warning him that his policies threatened economic ruin. "We have nothing because Mr. Ahmadinejad has spent it all," says Leylaz, who did not sign the letter, though he is a fierce critic of the President. "Mr. Ahmadinejad's economic policy has an absolute lack of financial discipline. His priority is making...
...Until mid-2008, you were butting up against lagging supply growth," says Greg Priddy, global oil analyst at the Eurasia Group in Washington. "But this drop is driven by collapse in demand. Nothing is going to globally control that." The scale of the oil market, with multiple new producing countries and burgeoning new consumer markets around the world, puts it beyond the control of Opec. "The market will just be more volatile," says Priddy...
...benefits, he said Russians were asking "a fair question" when they wondered about what was happening. His answer: "We will do everything, everything in our power ... so that the collapses of the past years should never be repeated in our country." Says Alexander Kliment, a Russia analyst at the Eurasia Group in New York City: "The Russian leadership turned a blind eye to this crisis until it ended up staring them in the face." (See pictures of Vladimir Putin...