IMF: Russian Gas Cut-off Would See Some EU Countries Lose 6% GDP Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia. 2-3% for Germany. Ben Aris 21 Jul 22 765 2
Economic War on RussiaFinancial Fortress Russia Just How Significant Are Empire’s New Sanctions on Russia’s Bonds? Not Very "Diving into the details it quickly becomes clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiscal fortress is complete and makes Russia impervious to US sanctions" Ben Aris 23 Apr 21 1054 1
Lockdown Cost Economic Ministry Forecasts Russia Won’t Climb Back to Pre-Lockdown Levels Until Late 2022 GDP will be 5% lower in 2020 Ben Aris 19 Jun 20 640 2
Financial Fortress Russia Appreciation of Russia’s Massive Gold Hoard Means Its Reserves Actually Grew Despite COVID Lockdown And now the oil price has rebounded to where the budget is breaking even again Ben Aris 15 Jun 20 1139 11
Putin *Gives Up* Power and All MSM Sees Is “Power Grab” Actually he has now started the project of building the institutions that will outlast him and managing his departure Ben Aris 18 Jan 20 1987 8
Russia and Ukraine Agree Gas Transit Deal, Kiev’s Earnings to Nosedive From $3bn to just $1.4bn, courtesy of imminent Nord Stream 2 completion Ben Aris 23 Dec 19 913 4
Greater Russia-Belarus Integration Likely as Lukashenko Running out of Options Putin is done massively subsidizing him for very little in return Ben Aris 17 Dec 19 1723 4
Those Pesky Russians Ukraine Has 16 Days Left to Do a Gas Transit Deal With Russia The Russian side is happy to run down the clock but Kiev is hoping for an intervention from Merkel Ben Aris 28 Nov 19 1396 5
Those Pesky Russians Russia’s $175bn Infrastructure Building Program Gets Underway Adjusted for purchasing power parity that amounts closer to $500bn in infrastructure Ben Aris 26 Nov 19 1032 1
There Is an Intense Diplomatic Dance Going on Between Paris, Moscow, Kiev and Berlin We’re Not Being Told About A secret, but all the signs are there Ben Aris 9 Oct 19 1079 2
US Is the Single Biggest Foreign Investor in Russia’s Economy The West as a whole has much more money riding on Russia's economy than anyone appreciates Ben Aris 7 Sep 19 1095 2
US Financial Warfare Has Been Very Effective in Starving Russia of Foreign Investments So much so that the undercapitaized Moscow stock market is now the world's biggest bargain Ben Aris 3 Sep 19 1161 5
Those Pesky Russians Russia’s LNG Production Soaring in 2019 And this is just the start Ben Aris 19 Aug 19 969 1
EU Delayed Nord Stream 2 Completion so Come New Year’s 2020 Say Hello to Catastrophic Gas Shortages Russia is ending deliveries over Ukraine whether Nord Stream 2 is ready or not. This means shortages for EU and a total drought for Ukraine Ben Aris 11 May 19 3812 3
Ukraine Feverishly Buying up Russian Gas, Races to Build up Reserves Before Gazprom Cuts off Supplies Kiev falling over itself to fork over money to Moscow Hitler Ben Aris 10 May 19 1108 3
RuSsIa DoEsN'T MaKe AnYtHiNg Russia’s Nuclear Power Exports Are Booming, Now Bring In as Much as Weapons Sales Rosatom has a $137bn order book to build two dozen nuclear power stations around the world — 2/3 of the international market Ben Aris 9 May 19 563 1
Kremlin Has Sanctions-Proofed Russia Into an Unassailable ‘Financial Fortress’ Russia has a 15% debt-to-GDP ratio, and enough reserves on hand to cover all its debt in cash Ben Aris 1 Apr 19 1737 0
Russia Is Launching Into a Six-Year $185 Billion Infrastructure Spending Bonanza to Transform the Economy It is hoped a transport infrastructure upgrade will add value for the private economy Ben Aris 25 Mar 19 803 2
Gazprom to Start Filling up the ‘Power of Siberia’ Gas Pipeline to China This September The 3,000 km pipeline for the historic $400bn over 30 years gas supply deal is about to go operational Ben Aris 16 Mar 19 349 0
