Posted on 04/12/2005 9:28:41 AM PDT by jb6
Russia is more Asian than European in terms of landmass and geography and stands to benefit from the overall Asian growth trend.
You will remember your assaultive comment very . . . interestingly . . . in the not overly distant future.
The Bible has never been wrong yet on a prophecy. It's not going to be.
It's not the Bible that is wrong on prophesy it's the people who interpret it. I won't hold my breath and since I highly doubt you'll be sitting at the right hand of God judging us, I'm not to worried by your threats.
Maybe but the population is 90% in Europe or just beyond the Urals.
With an economy smaller than the Netherlands thay have one helluva' lot of catching up to do.
True, however, the Euro Russians have got the slow growing EU as their hinterland, whereas, the Asian Russians have the fast growing Tigers as theirs.
The largest forest products corp. has no foreseeable plans to build any new plants or even a upgrade for that matter in N America. They have plans to build several new plants overseas. Care to guess where? The rest of the wood products industry are the same.
A big forest products company wanted to build a plant in the USA. They submitted the plan to the Environmental and other agencys for permits and all. The agencies told them they would have to hold a public meeting on it and do all the evironmental studies to grant the permits. In the public meeting they met with one of the most hostile crowds I have ever seen. The plans for the plant were scrapped and the company moved their plans to Russia.
In Russia they met with the authorities responsible for allowing them to build. They ask "Where do you want to put this plant?" The company told them the location but there was a problem, there was a wetland nearby. The Russians told them to build as they would take care of the wetland problem-they dug a lake and filled in the rest. They built the roads for the plant, had the electrical put in to operate the plant and built housing for workers near the plant.
Which place would you build a plant? Here or Russia?
Well we've succeeded in teaching the boys to count to 21. But no further.
By the way, we'll be going to Russia again in June. Anything I can pick up for you? |8-)
LOL!
This on the heels of reports that oil producers are fleeing the country over uncertainty in the Russian economy.
The article fails to take in account Russia's low birthrates and high death rates among men due to alcoholism and poor nutrition.
That's only if you do straight line GDP dollar conversion, which is wrong. So since the dollar fell 16% vs the ruble, is everyone in Russia 16% richer and everyone in America 16% poorer? No. What matters is what you can buy with the dollar, which is called Purchasing Power Parity. Hint, CIA world fact book uses this also, it is a comparison of a basket of goods and what percentage of your salary it takes to buy them. An example: to feed a family of 3 in Russia it costs $50 a month. What does it cost in the US? More like $600. A loaf of very good bread will cost about $.30 (think 1950s prices in Russia, if you looked at the incomes of the 50s with today's eyes, not adjusting for the value of the dollar now vs then, you'd say the people of our country were dirt poor in the 50s).
Birth rate is up from 1.2 to 1.56 and rising over the past 5 years. The death rate is falling off (the WW2 generation is completing the die off) and the male average death age is up from 55 to 59.5
Well I've already got my wife here. :0)
The thing is, most of the economic life of a modern nation, US included, is not in the small towns (many of which here in the US are equally dieing off) but in the super urbanized centers.
We are at the top of the hill. If we do not stop the idiocy and quit all the crap, we will take the slide the UK took during the first part of the 20th century.
BTW the trade deficit hit an all time record high today..
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