The stabilization and restoration of the consumer market is the main economic as well as political task confronting our society today. The destruction of the market, which caused living conditions to deteriorate sharply (in 1991 alone, prices in the USSR consumer market increased sevenfold on...

The author argues that budget surpluses should not be frozen in "reserve funds" but used for the country's socioeconomic development.

The state's repudiation of its obligations on August 17,1998, along with subsequent events (the three-week absence of leaders of the government of the Russian Federation and the Central Bank of Russia [CBR], and the formation of their new leadership over the course of the month), led to a...

Events in the banking sphere, including the banking crisis, must be viewed in the context of the country's socioeconomic development in general. We do not consider it entirely correct to call the present stage of the reforms a period of "financial stabilization." Economics is not a concept that...

Since the dynamics of inflation are influenced by a multitude of multidirectional processes, at present it is technologically impossible to build an uncontradictory model of it that adequately describes the interaction of all factors on the basis of reliable statistical information. In...