[Dog Gone]

It sounds as if Putin believes in the lessons depicted in the recent PBS series Commanding Heights. Open and free markets are the way to economic growth. Central control and government management of the economy stifles it.

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They have a 13% flat tax and did you hear Putin Advisor Extols Ayn Rand. That economy is going to go through the roof they are privatizing their space program too Putin wants an economy of pure capitalism.