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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Light the Candles December 19-21, 2014 [View all]MattSh
(3,714 posts)35. AND... Here's the article I had banned, but I'll be nice and post it from another site...
Free Fall of the Ruble A brilliant ploy of Russian economic Wizards? Whos chess game? : Information Clearing House - ICH
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The propaganda drums tell you Russia is helpless because the world has lost the last bit of confidence in President Putin of course. Regime change is on the agenda. Mr. Putin must be blamed as the culprit, hoping to discredit him with his people. He is leading Russia into a deep recession; the worst since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The mainstream media show you interviews with average mainstreet Russians saying they have lost all their savings, their salaries and pensions are worth nothing anymore and they dont know how to survive this coming calamity.
In reality, at least 80% of the Russian population stands solidly behind Vladimir Putin. He has brought them universal education, health care and fixed infrastructure that was decaying after the fall of the Soviet Union. President Putin is literally revered as a hero by the vast majority of Russians including the countrys oligarchy.
In fact, nobody in the western economic system these days is dealing in rubles. In short-sighted connivance with Washington, the treasuries of the western vassals are releasing their ruble reserves which Russia does not buy, thereby flooding the market. Russia not only has large dollar reserves, plus the ruble is backed by gold, a fact consistently omitted in the MSM. For now, Russia prefers to let the ruble plummet.
Under another arrangement by bully Obama, Middle Eastern oil producing puppets like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are overproducing and flooding the market with petrol and gas, thereby driving the price down to the ostensible detriment of Russia and Venezuela, both countries where Washington vies for regime change. A double whammy thinks Washington, buying kudos with the stooges. The sheiks that control their energy output apparently have been promised enough goodies from Washington to bite the bullet and take their own losses.
Russia needs rubles. Thats her currency. That is the currency Russia needs for future trading detached from the western monetary system.
When Russia deems that her currency has reached rock-bottom, she will buy back cheap rubles in the market with massive amounts of dollars. Russia may then flood the western market with dollars, and by now we know what that does to a currency and simultaneously buy back rubles from the West. A brilliant move to reestablish Russias currency in a new emerging monetary system which Europe would be welcome to join, but willingly, no by Washington style arm-twisting.
Is this another precursor to war? A nuclear confrontation or Cold War II? Precursor to a false flag attempting Moscow to fall into the trap? - Not necessarily. Russia is playing a clever chess game, diplomacy at its best. Instead of sabre rattling Russia is coin rattling. It might lead to a western financial fiasco early in 2015 for the dollar and euro denominated economies. And the winner is ?
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He is the author of Implosion An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe.
Complete story at - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40508.htm
My comment. I am under the impression that Russia does not have enough dollars to pull this off by themselves. I could be wrong, who knows? But I know the Chinese do have those kinds of dollars and have been itching to find a way out. Expect some co-ordinated effort? Maybe.
What I can tell you is that on Russian TV, yes the same Russian TV that's viewed in Moscow, there have been broadcast pleas to not convert your rubles or buy stuff you really don't need. It could be an appeal to patriotism, OR it could be a confirmation of what our author is speculating might actually happen. Stay tuned...
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The propaganda drums tell you Russia is helpless because the world has lost the last bit of confidence in President Putin of course. Regime change is on the agenda. Mr. Putin must be blamed as the culprit, hoping to discredit him with his people. He is leading Russia into a deep recession; the worst since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The mainstream media show you interviews with average mainstreet Russians saying they have lost all their savings, their salaries and pensions are worth nothing anymore and they dont know how to survive this coming calamity.
In reality, at least 80% of the Russian population stands solidly behind Vladimir Putin. He has brought them universal education, health care and fixed infrastructure that was decaying after the fall of the Soviet Union. President Putin is literally revered as a hero by the vast majority of Russians including the countrys oligarchy.
In fact, nobody in the western economic system these days is dealing in rubles. In short-sighted connivance with Washington, the treasuries of the western vassals are releasing their ruble reserves which Russia does not buy, thereby flooding the market. Russia not only has large dollar reserves, plus the ruble is backed by gold, a fact consistently omitted in the MSM. For now, Russia prefers to let the ruble plummet.
Under another arrangement by bully Obama, Middle Eastern oil producing puppets like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are overproducing and flooding the market with petrol and gas, thereby driving the price down to the ostensible detriment of Russia and Venezuela, both countries where Washington vies for regime change. A double whammy thinks Washington, buying kudos with the stooges. The sheiks that control their energy output apparently have been promised enough goodies from Washington to bite the bullet and take their own losses.
Russia needs rubles. Thats her currency. That is the currency Russia needs for future trading detached from the western monetary system.
When Russia deems that her currency has reached rock-bottom, she will buy back cheap rubles in the market with massive amounts of dollars. Russia may then flood the western market with dollars, and by now we know what that does to a currency and simultaneously buy back rubles from the West. A brilliant move to reestablish Russias currency in a new emerging monetary system which Europe would be welcome to join, but willingly, no by Washington style arm-twisting.
Is this another precursor to war? A nuclear confrontation or Cold War II? Precursor to a false flag attempting Moscow to fall into the trap? - Not necessarily. Russia is playing a clever chess game, diplomacy at its best. Instead of sabre rattling Russia is coin rattling. It might lead to a western financial fiasco early in 2015 for the dollar and euro denominated economies. And the winner is ?
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He is the author of Implosion An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe.
Complete story at - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40508.htm
My comment. I am under the impression that Russia does not have enough dollars to pull this off by themselves. I could be wrong, who knows? But I know the Chinese do have those kinds of dollars and have been itching to find a way out. Expect some co-ordinated effort? Maybe.
What I can tell you is that on Russian TV, yes the same Russian TV that's viewed in Moscow, there have been broadcast pleas to not convert your rubles or buy stuff you really don't need. It could be an appeal to patriotism, OR it could be a confirmation of what our author is speculating might actually happen. Stay tuned...
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AND... Here's the article I had banned, but I'll be nice and post it from another site...
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Dec 2014
#35
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