{"id":212395,"date":"2010-01-22T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/we-need-to-boot-russia-out-of-the-brics-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-22T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:56:00","slug":"russia-is-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212395","title":{"rendered":"Russia Is Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/we-need-to-boot-russia-out-of-the-brics-2010-1\/russias-population-is-literally-dying-off-fast-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b5954170000000000c0d9f0-344-258\/old-russian-lady.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Old Russian Lady\" width=\"344\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ntweetmeme_source = 'moneygame'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The concept of BRICs nations (Brazil, Russia, India China) as an investment theme has been a mind-blowing success, both for the investors who initially followed the idea when it was created in 2001, and for the man who created it &#8212; Goldman Sach&#8217;s Jim O&#8217;Neill.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s face it, there&#8217;s clearly always been an oddball in the grouping &#8212; Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe things looked a lot different back in 2001, but today, it&#8217;s clear that Russia isn&#8217;t the BRIC we hoped it could be.<\/p>\n<p>The population is literally dying off, the country&#8217;s political development is going backwards, and in the end any success we&#8217;ve seen from the nation has been nothing more than Russia riding the wave of high energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>So Goldman, it&#8217;s time to kick Russia out of the BRICs. Then add two of the MAVINS, Australia and South Africa, to create the new &#8216;BASICs&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/we-need-to-boot-russia-out-of-the-brics-2010-1\/russias-population-is-literally-dying-off-fast-1\">The case against Russia &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/we-need-to-boot-russia-out-of-the-brics-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-revives-plans-for-a-nuclear-rocket-2010-1\">IT&#8217;S BACK: Russia Revives Plans For A Nuclear Rocket <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/goldmans-jim-oneil-easy-money-and-high-oil-prices-make-russia-the-1-bric-for-2010-2010-1\">Goldman&#8217;s Jim O&#8217;Neill: Easy Money And High Oil Prices Make Russia The #1 BRIC For 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-next-10-brics-2010-1\">The Next BRICs: Six Surging Countries You Must Pay Attention To This Decade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/zIp1w0tSKLk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of BRICs nations (Brazil, Russia, India China) as an investment theme has been a mind-blowing success, both for the investors who initially followed the idea when it was created in 2001, and for the man who created it &#8212; Goldman Sach&#8217;s Jim O&#8217;Neill. But let&#8217;s face it, there&#8217;s clearly always been an oddball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}