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Well Jake its the end of 2009 and as you and I both implied against quite a bit of amateur mockery back in February when oil prices were around $40, the price has indeed risen strongly. In fact its...

So let me get this right .. you debug software in London and you have been to Moscow ... once???

And yet you purport to be a font of knowledge on the Russian economy. I love it.

You have...

hahahaha .... I rest my case ...


I would be curious to see you post some pictures of women in Moscow. Do you ever add value and post pictures, or just shoot your mouth off? Please, for all...

As far as foreign investment in the Russian market?? Institutional Investors primarily. Everything from hedge funds (short term money) to Russia specific investment funds like Hermitage (longer term...

here's the thing ... they werent even MBAs ... just regular grad jobs.

Be careful throwing around the word "bubble" ... its very misused. Tulip bubbles, internet stock bubbles and US sub prime...

Tell me you seriously dont believe that is a classic sign of a bubble ? :-)

An experienced engineer who can build bridges in indonesia gets paid a quarter as much as a barely literate unskilled...

Might touch 50 ... but that depends if EUR strengthens vs the USD

The Russian central bank drew a line in the sand this week and said they will defend the currency basket at 41. The basket is...

Well a luxury property in central moscow I am familiar with that was about to rent for $18k a month just 6 months ago is on the market at $7k a month now.

Which part of that price is almost not...

Sorry ... i cant reassure you.

Absolutely I believe that.

If there was no US subprime crisis, then ther would be no global credit crunch and it would be business as usual in Moscow ... and...

Be interesting to hear from the mangus meister about the credit crunch and what its doing to prices in the provinces.

one thing that is clear is the Darwinian nature of the dyev. As news filters through of an exodus of the young and formerly wealthy to the likes of Phuket and Goa, i have had no less than 4 dyevs ask...

not necessarily... the fact that a graduate in manhattan or london makes 3 times as much as a graduate from rural new zealand with the same qualifications doesnt mean theres a bubble in manhattan...

2 reasons ... related to each other.

(1) most simplistically ... supply and demand. For most of 2008 almost every room in every marriott was booked. If they charged 400 bux for those rooms...

Proves Skanks point. $400 is CHEAP for 2008 Moscow. Until the credit crisis started to really bite in Moscow about September, you could hardly get ANY Marriott room for under about $900 bux a nite

Not sure thats exactly what the comments have implied.

There are no ladies anywhere in the world just waiting for a one night stand. But if you play your cards right, you will have a very good...

Well that pretty much sums it up in my book

a) Like Skank and Pizdets, I love being out with the boys, you relax and get a good buzz happening. But as they both said, you will do better solo,...

There's part of your problem right there in your question. You dont aim to come to Moscow and meet ONE girl. Don't aim to be poking the same girl for a few days - thats soft. If thats your...