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Name of Nation

Yesterday, I asked readers to guess the name of which nation has a very popular leader despite having a very bad economy.  The answer is Russia.

$63 billion of capital left the country in the twelve months of 2013 but $70 billion has already fled the country in the first three months of this year.

In the mid-1990s, 50% of its exports was energy.  Today, it is 70%.  The nation is terribly vulnerable.

I don’t know who originally said that people vote their wallet, but suspect they only do that in the absence of patriotic fervor.

So, if the economy is lousy, start a war?