As readers of this blog know, I have long regarded the return of economic crisis as an inevitability (because the core energy and no-growth predicament facing the Western world wasn’t solved in 2008-9 but merely kicked further down the road by increasing debt and printing money). It looks like 2012 will be the crunch year, as […]
The Race To Collapse
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog on November 25, 2011 .79 Comments
Making the Best of a Bad Situation
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog on May 11, 2010 .12 Comments
So news is in that Britain’s next government is going to be a Tory-Lib Dem coalition, bringing an end to thirteen years of New Labour dominance. At a time of profound economic uncertainty and the imminent return of Great Power politics, it is pollyannish to believe that any British government could resolve Britain’s manifold problems without […]
The Endgame Begins
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog on February 13, 2010 .22 Comments
A year ago I predicted that there will be a “decoupling from the unwinding“, as “emerging markets” by and large ride out the temporary shocks of declining Western demand for their exports (China) and the interruption of Western credit intermediation (Russia) before resuming growth. This is one aspect of the trends leading to the imminent demise […]
Russia Economic Crisis III: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile on December 7, 2008 .4 Comments
In this essay, I analyze three major areas of concern about the current Russian economy – the debt burden, balance of payments and future fiscal sustainability. Although on paper Russia is comfortably solvent, rolling over debt has been problematic for Russia Inc. because of the shutdown of its traditional financing mechanisms, cheap American credit and […]
Russia Economy Crisis II: Anatomy of the Crisis
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile on December 4, 2008 .1 Comment
As promised in the last post, here is a follow-up about Part II of the 17th World Bank Russia report, the reading of which cannot be stressed as too important in the current climate. Like in the last post, I summarize the main reports, using a lot of unattributed straight-out quoting of salient phrases and […]
Russia Economy Crisis I: How Red will Russia Get?
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile on December 3, 2008 .No Comments
Recently the World Bank’s November issue of the biannual Russian Economic Report came out. At the time I was busy with other things, amongst others planning the move from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress; as such, I did not give it the comprehensive treatment that it deserved at the time. Of course, reading about these things […]
Victimized Venezuela II: Beware of Schadenfreude
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog on December 1, 2008 .1 Comment
Much like Putin’s Russia, Venezuela has been unfairly victimized by Washington’s foreign policy elite and savaged by the Western MSM, which have caricatured Chávez as a run of the mill Latin American populist strongman. In a previous post on this matter, I drew attention to the work of Mark Weisbrot at the CEPR, who has […]
