Russia has achieved this success not by coddling its job creators or by adopting radically free-market and business-friendly policies, but by supporting consumer demand, encouraging consumption, and loosening credit within the confines of its (deeply flawed) preexisting economic structures.

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SHANGHAI China has been supporting property purchases by certain buyers to meet genuine rather than speculative demand in the past few months, as Beijing seeks ways to stimulate consumption and ease credit to stave off a hard landing for the world's second-largest economy.

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Echoing Barak's assertion at the Saban Forum that being a Zionist means supporting a Palestinian state, Livni argued that by surrendering to the Palestinians, and agreeing to every US demand, Israel is advancing its own existential interests.

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