MSNBC Morning Joe February 16, 2022 12:16:00
A gas station. but they've done well economically the last few years. their gdp rate of growth has been almost exactly the same as ours. it is not terribly high. we've been through a pandemic, just under 2%. but they are growing. more interestingly, he has dramatically brought down their public debt level. they had debt over 100%. they went bankrupt in the late 1990s. he has been working that down. today, their debt to gdp level is 17%. >> who would have guessed, by the way, that boris yeltzin wouldn't be a good manager of money? >> putin has done all right. >> yeah, but not yeltzin. i'm not l...