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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago
[-] Magister@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I like Polandball, I'm glad to see it for something like 15 years now :)

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The solution is to beat all credit to death. Great work everyone, pub?

[-] Mistic@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Am a finance student from Russia.

12% is fine. It's a temporary measure to keep the currency at bay. It's not great, don't get me wrong, I'd much rather it was at 4-5% as it was in 2020, but it's appropriate given what's happenning with the country.

In comparison, on February 2022 it was 20%, which in simple terms saved the banking system from collapsing, our Cenral Bank is one of not that many agencies that are at least compitent.

It does slow down the economic growth, but trust me, there are way bigger problems than expensive credit when it comes to economic growth. Short-term everything is quite well, but long-term if nothing changes? Oh boy, oh boy.

[-] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Long term problem, I mean, most of the industrialized world loathing Russia and not wanting to trade at all is going to hurt much more than currency instability.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, they have China, resources for rubles.

This just means they have no other option.

[-] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Putin is planning to push credit out a window.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And if that doesn’t work, the finance minister.

Or the poor sod that the finance minister points a finger at.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Everyone's credit? Oh no. The tzar and his cronies are fine.

The plebs? They don't matter. The propaganda spinners will be going to work soon.

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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