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 21 878 1
Financial Fortress Russia Russia for First Time Holds More Gold Than US Dollars in $583 Billion Reserves Schiff Gold 14 Jan 21 961 3
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 20 967 11
Financial Fortress Russia Russia Shot Itself in the Foot With the Corona Hysteria, but the Economic Fallout Will Be Far Less Than in the West In relative terms there will actually be a convergence Jon Hellevig 9 May 20 1129 7
Financial Fortress Russia Russia Says the Oil & Gas Price Crash Will Cost It Only $40bn (It’s Budget Surplus Last Year Was $30bn) The US was meanwhile is readying a $1.5 trillion bailout and was on track for a greater than $1 trillion deficit even before the crash Tsvetana Paraskova 19 Mar 20 1199 4
Financial Fortress Russia Russia’s Reserves Hit $557 Billion, Surpass Pre-Sanctions Peak Just $11 billion of that is in dollars bne IntelliNews 24 Jan 20 1827 8
Financial Fortress Russia With Global Recession Looming, Unleveraged and Debt-Free Russia Looks Strong Russia is among the world’s countries best placed to cope with the coming bust Jon Hellevig 27 Sep 19 1712 2
Financial Fortress Russia Russia Planning for the Possibility Oil Drops as Low as $25 Next Year Might actually happen with another great recession looming, but Russia plans to survive anyway which the US shale, and perhaps even the Saudis, surely will not Julianne Geiger 10 Sep 19 966 4
Financial Fortress Russia Russia’s Huge Gold Stash Is Now Worth More Than $100 Billion Russia’s long-running bet on gold is looking better every month Yuliya Fedorinova 10 Sep 19 499 2
Financial Fortress Russia Russian Reserves March Toward $600 Billion Will soon overtake Saudi Arabia for 4th largest reserves in the world after China, Japan and Switzerland Radio Free Europe 15 Aug 19 1102 4
Financial Fortress Russia Russia’s Reserves Pass the $500 Billion Mark, Close In on Pre-Sanctions High Just 20 percent of that is dollars bne IntelliNews 17 Jun 19 585 3
Financial Fortress Russia Russia’s Stock Market up 100% Since Sanctions Declared 5 Years Ago Keeps breaking records anyway Kenneth Rapoza 24 Apr 19 865 1
