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...Some Russia watchers are expecting much more upheaval. Vladimir Savov, an analyst for Credit Suisse in Moscow, sees the recent turmoil as the beginning of a broad consolidation of Russia's highly-leveraged banking sector. "We want to hope that this will improve the resilience of Russia's financial markets in the long term," he says, "although in the near term the process could be painful." Renaissance says it had been in talks for some time and didn't act out of distress. But its move came a few days after the first financial institution fell victim to the crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Tide at the Casino | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...International lending statistics show the extent to which Russians have been bingeing on borrowed funds. The total volume of international financing of the private sector, including bonds, equities and loans, has more than tripled in the past three years to over $76 billion. Indeed, Russia has raised more on international bond markets alone than the whole of Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Tide at the Casino | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...question is what sort of an impact the banking sector's problems and the cascading margin calls on stock-market investors will have on the Russian economy as a whole. In such volatile times, it's particularly hazardous to make any predictions. But Russia experts say that, for the moment at least, they don't expect the troubles to blow up into a huge national economic crisis like the one of a decade ago, when the ruble collapsed and the economy contracted sharply. If anything, there will be a welcome cooling off in the economy, which has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Tide at the Casino | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

Kenneth S. Rogoff, an economics professor and former chief researcher at the International Monetary Fund, said that the “bloated” financial sector needed shrinking for some time...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Panel Weighs Market Meltdown | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...savage capitalism," and many a right-wing Gaullist has been prone to agree: in 2005 then French President famously said that "ultra-liberalism" - French parlance for the unbridled marketplace - is "as disastrous as communism." For decades, any episode of turbulence in the U.S. stock market or speculative finance sector was bound to provoke scorn across France's political spectrum. Detractors disparaged the U.S. economic model for rewarding short-sighted greed with indecent executive compensation, for its myopic focus on share price rather than wider-view company performance, and for its recurrent bubbles and busts. "People ironically asked when American markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Gloating in France on Finance Crisis | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

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