Russia’s central bank on Tuesday hiked interest rates by 350 basis points to 12% at an emergency meeting, as Moscow looks to halt a rapid depreciation of the country’s ruble currency.

The ruble slumped to near 102 to the dollar on Monday, as President Vladimir Putin’s economic advisor, Maxim Oreshkin, penned an op-ed in Russian state-owned Tass news agency that blamed the plunging currency and the acceleration of inflation on the “loose monetary policy” of the central bank.

  • InvertedParallax
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    10 months ago

    Nah, they have China, resources for rubles.

    This just means they have no other option.

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      10 months ago

      China isn’t really that interested in importing that much in terms of finished goods. Natural resource exports can only go so far

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        10 months ago

        Asian countries dont believe in importing finished goods, they play using mercantile economics, try to figure out how to climb the value chain while fiercely protecting domestic markets.

        But russia is a natural resource gold mine, and exporting them has gotten russia pretty damn far up to now.