Fun fact, as of last I checked the Russian interest rate was 19% and rising. This will not help.
Hyperinflation, when?
Yeah, exactly. At some point you have to think people will stop borrowing from the government entirely, and then the central bank is in the equivalent of an airplane stall - they can pull the lever all they want, but nothing will happen. When that actually happens is a question for a real economist.
Well, today I learned Russia is converting dinosaur juice into 6,200 disposable soldiers each month. That's depressing as fuck.
More if you count maimed and disfigured. And that excludes the Ukranians he actively hurts with this.
Ok but consider that you can turn the soldiers back into juice afterwards. It's not great fuel but it's decent lubricant.
Think those are rookie numbers, they're hitting 1k days pretty often.
But yeah, we gotta pump those numbers up.
Why would they though? They profit just the same from the high prices.
They need the houthis gone and Iran stopped, that doesn't happen till Russia gives up.
Russia is trying to set the middle east on fire to pull support from Ukraine, and the middle east is where the saudis keep all their stuff.
They want $100 a barrel. Russia is selling too much at say $90 a barrel. If the Saudis flood the market so it's only $80 a barrel, it will really fuck Russia's shit up.
Saudis are hoping Russia starts playing their game with the price fixing.
Politico Europe - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for Politico Europe:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - Germany
Wikipedia about this source
Media Bias Fact Check | bot supportSearch topics on Ground.News
https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-war-economy-pain-saudi-arabia-sink-global-oil-prices-energy-russia-opec/
A community for discussing events around the World
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
