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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by riku_iki on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:46AM (#33922564)
> Which means that in turn you must have produced something to exchange for that currency.

and Russia still perfectly sells oil and gas.

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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by Nifty3929 on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:39AM (#33923295)
Yes exactly. But I don't think QE will help.
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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by riku_iki on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:43AM (#33923356)
why do you think Russia is doing any QE and why they would need it?..
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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by Nifty3929 on Friday December 09, 2022 @12:07PM (#33923709)
I don't know anything about whether or not Russia is doing any QE. I was responding to the question: "If West can run quantitative easing for 15 years, why not Russia?" by explaining why, even if they could do QE forever, it would probably not help.
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