While GDP can be helpful, there can be a disconnect between real GDP growth and actual equity marketperformance, where a lackluster stock market can exist in a country whose GDP regularly exceeds 6.5-7%.
If anything, the fact that his support was not more conditional on Yeltsin's actualperformance on democratic and free market reform will probably contribute to a less satisfactory turn of events down the road.
For example, the SEC alleges that ThinkStrategy reported a 2008 return of 22.6% for its Capital Fund-A, a long-short market neutral hedge fund, when the actualperformance was -77.9%.