Capitalismo: Stranger in Moscow

A economia russa é uma das que mais cresce no mundo. Alguns dados direto da Newsweek:

...growth has averaged 7.5 per year for the last eight years, the country's massive debts have been replaced with a $150 billion stabilization fund, and its trade balance shows a healthy surplus of $72.5 billion last year. The Russian stock market's RTS index has grown by a staggering 1,922 percent between 2000 and 2007.

Interessante, não? A Rússia é um dos maiores proutores e exportadores de petróleo, em uma época que o barril está em 120 doletas. Eles êm tudo pra continuar crescendo. Mas, o governo lá nunca gostou muito de capitalismo e concorrência. Então o que acontece na verdade é:

...little of that growth has spilled over into the real Russian economy. Rather, the boom has, in many ways, held back Russia's non-commodities economy from growing: rampant inflation, spiraling real-estate prices and higher labor costs, bureaucratic corruption, expensive credit and bad governance have combined to stifle the competitiveness of many Russian businesses.

E o motivo para todas estas distorções:

"Russia's elite still believes that what they have can be taken away at any time, so they spend like mad, or hide their money abroad," says Professor Igor Turkhansky, who studies elites at Moscow's Russian State University for the Humanities. "The idea of reinvesting your money to grow your business, or to saving your salary in a Russian bank for the future—all these ideas are very new."

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