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To: proust; Tupelo

Anyone here know even the basics of economics?

Russia hiked interest rates to 14%. The USA is at 1%. The currencies are stable only when Russia offers a return 14 times higher than we do.

That 14% interest rate has also caused almost all borrowing in Russia to grind to a halt and is pushing the economy towards a deep recession


15 posted on 05/20/2022 8:59:13 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Renfrew

Argentina has a 49% interest rate. Maybe the mob is loan sharking:

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/interest-rate


16 posted on 05/20/2022 9:04:12 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Renfrew

Economic and financial illiterates.

This is like getting giddy over some sales record because the company gave a 80% discount on the product price. Meaningless.


17 posted on 05/20/2022 9:05:41 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Renfrew

Finally, an economics expert. Tell me when Russia will go into a deep recession. A year from now? Six months? Two weeks? Two days?


18 posted on 05/20/2022 9:07:11 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Renfrew

“That 14% interest rate has also caused almost all borrowing in Russia to grind to a halt and is pushing the economy towards a deep recession”

Don’t inject reality into the Putard party.


19 posted on 05/20/2022 9:07:43 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Renfrew

Exactly. This whole Mess has just started, let’s see where the Ruble is 6-9 months from now. It is likely that the Russian economy will be a basket case by then. Even if the war ended tomorrow, the Russians have cut their own throats by encouraging the Europeans to seek other energy sources besides Russian oil and gas. I don’t expect that shift away from Russian energy to turn around for quite a long time if ever and it will really strike them hard in 6-12 months as the Europeans get their alternatives online.


21 posted on 05/20/2022 9:10:47 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: Renfrew
Russia lowered interest rates at the end of last month from 17% to 14%.

The ruble was at 140 for every dollar right after the sanctions hit and how is at 57 for every dollar.

Russia is collecting more in oil revenue than before the war began.

The sanction war has been total failure. The Russians were prepared for the sanctions, overcome them and, now, Russia is set to thrive in the future because of all this.

What kind of conservative backs the idiotic Biden regime strategy on this?

34 posted on 05/20/2022 10:31:15 AM PDT by Kazan
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