Consider the health of other subsidized industries.

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Instead, we have overcapacity in almost all industries that the government has subsidized, mounting non-performing bank loans, fiscal deficits among local governments, rampant corruption and widening income inequality.

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In particular, some seem to believe that the absence of strict control over the money supply notably the hemorrhaging of subsidized credits to bankrupt state-owned industries (read the military-industrial complex) is accepted by the Russian government as the single greatest obstacle to true structural change and that corrective action is in the offing.

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