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Russian expert: U.S. headed for collapse

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Published: Nov. 24, 2008 at 7:58 PM

MOSCOW, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The United States is heading for collapse amid its financial crisis, a leading political analyst in Russia says.

Igor Panarin, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, said in an interview with Izvestia, published Monday, that the U.S. economy is in dire straits, RIA Novosti reported.

"The dollar is not secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse," he said.

Asked when the U.S. economy would collapse, Panarin said the process has already begun.

"It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving," he said. "Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will no longer be the world's financial regulator."

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