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...return to economic growth. But when that happens, they add, governments must also start slashing budgets, reducing expensive state services and cutting jobs - all the things that tend to weigh economies down in good times. Why? Because they say the only way big-spending nations can avoid implementing drastic debt-reduction measures is by prompting massive GDP growth - something few observers see happening anytime soon...
...government revenue came from vodka. The distillation process had improved (vodka was now filtered with charcoal and occasionally flavored), leading to increased consumption. By 1913, Russian citizens could boast one unlicensed, bootlegging distillery for every 10 households. Drunkenness was so rampant that in 1914, Czar Nicholas II took the drastic step of making alcohol illegal. (See "Fashions of the Russian Czars...