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...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...
...Russian authorities have responded by injecting $44 billion into the three big banks. President Dmitri Medvedev has also pledged to make a further $20 billion from the state budget available to support the stock market. However, earlier talk by other officials that some of the nation's oil windfall should be used to support the stock market has been dropped...
...Economic Pearl Harbor.' WARREN BUFFETT, investor, describing the nation's financial crisis, after purchasing $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group stock...
...building restored confidence on real estate would be foolish. How is the country any richer if the exact same stock of existing housing is suddenly worth, say, 20% more? Other markets produce things. They sell what they produce. When prices go up, they produce more. Not so with real estate, for the most part. This market consists primarily of trading the same thing again and again. And you know the old saw about land: They're not making any more of it. Real estate is the only major consumer market in which how much you'll pay someone depends...
...after that? Think the unthinkable. On Sept. 18, Paulson and Bernanke laid out the dark scenario for stunned-silent congressional leaders: a stock-market crash, businesses going under, unemployment soaring, consumers unable to get so much as a car loan, banks failing so fast that they would quickly drain the federal deposit insurance fund--and with it, countless people's life savings. And unlike the chain reaction that came over the course of weeks and months in 1929, this one would happen in a matter of days, if not faster. "The chain reaction," said Paulson, "is quicker than...