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Okay, Mr. Prime Minister. But where's the program'?
- Source :
- Forbes; 10/16/1989, Vol. 144 Issue 8, p88-88, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 1989
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Abstract
- Comments on Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov's interview with the journal "Forbes." Impression of confidently holding the country to its course; View that power in the Soviet Union is descending into a twilight zone; Reluctance to take the essential step of liberating prices; Information that the Soviet consumers have some 460 billion rubles in cash holdings; decisively. Suggestion that the Soviet government can borrow some $30 billion abroad, buying up Western consumer goods and resell them to the Soviet consumer at up to ten times the cost.
- Subjects :
- PRIME ministers
SOCIAL conditions in the Soviet Union, 1970-1991
CONSUMER goods
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00156914
- Volume :
- 144
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Forbes
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 8910301006