It is known that in the modern economic life of Russia there is one strange phenomenon: in the western part, its highest economic activity (trade, crafts and manufacturing) is provided to a foreign tribe. The urban settlements of this part of our fatherland (disproportionately numerous) are inhabited by Jews - a phenomenon that no other state in Europe represents and which is accompanied by unfavorable results, both socially and economically: it paralyzes the best and most generous measures in favor of the agricultural class.