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September 15th, 2009

Move over, Nouriel Roubini

Posted by: Melissa Akin
Tags: Russian Investment, , , , ,
Mikhail Alexeyev, a veteran of Soviet and Russian banking who now heads Russian operations for Italian bank UniCredit, said he saw the 2008 financial crisis coming when he was still a student at a Soviet state institute of finance.
 “I knew it would happen back in 1981, when I was studying political economics. In capitalism you get crises. Marx and Lenin teach us that.”
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