Russia’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by two percentage points to a record-high 21% in an effort to combat growing inflation.

Russia’s central bank on Friday raised its key interest rate by two percentage points to a record-high 21% in an effort to stem growing inflation as massive government spending on the military amid the fighting in Ukraine strains the economy’s capacity to produce goods and services and drives up workers’ wages.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    12·
    8 hours ago

    You don’t have to know more than basic high school economics to understand why a 21% interest rate is disastrous for any nation. Russia isn’t special.

    • humblebunEnglish
      114·
      8 hours ago

      Russia had 18 for a long time and it didn’t look like a big deal. All these talks look exactly like reversed copium meme from 2022

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            14·
            8 hours ago

            Do you think either of those links makes your 18% claim true?

            Because otherwise I’m not sure why you replied to my comment a second time with those links after showing you that it wasn’t true. Those links also show it isn’t true.

        • humblebunEnglish
          111·
          8 hours ago

          No, this is a good reality check. Still we can see how the rate has dropped from 20 to 8 like nothing

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            10·
            8 hours ago

            How can we see that it did that “like nothing” from that chart? Do you think the number is just come up with arbitrarily or something? If that’s the case, why ever change the interest rate at all? Just always keep it at that magic 18% of yours.

            • humblebunEnglish
              18·
              8 hours ago

              I was wrong about 18 being “for a long time”. Still, if it’s indeed a measure to regulate inflation, it worked previously, why wouldn’t it work this time?

                • humblebunEnglish
                  17·
                  8 hours ago

                  Don’t play Trump’s card here. I was wrong in one argument, thank you for pointing it out, but overall it doesn’t seem that the claim that “Russia is collapsing due to sanctions and war” has been damaged in any way

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                    8·
                    8 hours ago

                    I think you need to go back and look at the comment chain, because you decided to respond to my link showing you that the 18% claim wasn’t true a second time with a couple of links that also showed it wasn’t true with some popcorn bucket emojis.

                    So you might want to tell that you that this you thinks you’re wrong.