If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists.

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.