Is Putin Winning The Oil War?
Admiration for Putin’s decisiveness has largely subsided in the West, but not totally. There are still people arguing Russia will come out the other end reinforced. While low oil prices […]
A Russian Default?
It’s no secret that Russia is plagued by the crash in the oil price and Western sanctions, but there are also a host of structural economic problems. If the present […]
Turn The Lose-Lose Economic War With Russia Into Trading Profits
While riding a wave of domestic popularity, Putin has made a bad gamble for Russia. Instead of developing an 21st century economy by stimulating value-added industries and human capital, he […]
How about this for a bubble..
And it’s about to burst as well. What foreign diplomacy and policy were impotent to achieve but good old US style bubble economics has no trouble in letting Putin sing […]