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25.06.2009, 10:51
In an exclusive interview with RT's Anastasia Churkina, Russia's Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin speaks about the global economic crisis – how the world got here, and what will happen next.
25.06.2009, 10:46
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The economic crisis is changing the structure of Russia's population, boosting the number of poor and cutting the middle class. It's part of the World Bank’s forecast for this year - and it just got more gloomy.
25.06.2009, 10:30
The wealth of the world's rich and ultra-rich population has dropped by 20 % to $33 trillion.
18.10.2010, 09:09
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Public services in Britain are facing massive cuts in their budget as the government looks to fill the huge black hole in its balance sheet.
30.04.2010, 13:37
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Greece faces years of painful cuts to salaries in return for a multi-billion-dollar bailout from the International Monetary Fund and the EU. The Greek finance minister called it a “choice between collapse or salvation.”
23.06.2009, 10:39
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Webster Tarpley, journalist, radio host and critic of the Obama administration, reveals to RT who he thinks really rules the United States.
01.02.2010, 15:56
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The former US Treasury secretary has accused Russia of trying to undermine the American economy shortly before the global recession.
26.05.2009, 07:01
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The global crisis was not born directly out of the US economy; the global financial crisis was born out of America’s pro-business political establishment, which perpetuates the system’s endemic failures.
05.06.2009, 15:06
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Workers of a construction company in Siberia, desperate to receive the money they’ve earned, have decided to ask President Obama for cash. They say it’s the US that started the crisis, so it’s the US that should pay up.
07.04.2010, 08:45
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America is facing a crisis of democracy because of the rising deficit gridlock in Washington and a possible war with Iran, political commentator and author Pat Buchanan told RT.
Published: 25 June, 2009, 15:24
So the bankers are back to their old ways. The financial reforms, that three months ago politicians told us were urgent, are rusting by the roadside.
