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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 142 points 2 months ago

They'll just suspend trading again, likely until trump lifts sanctions. Value can't fall if it can't be compared in the market.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Lost like 7 percent today (or percentage points, funnily about the same here).

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Whoa do "percent" and "percentage points" actually refer to different things?

[-] sushibowl@feddit.nl 30 points 2 months ago

Yeah, "percentage points" is used to refer to a difference between two percentages.

For example, let's say some company previously held 25% of the market, but grew and is now holding 50% of the market. The company's market share actually doubled in size, which we could call an increase of 100%. Or, looking at it another way, because they grew from 25% to 50%, you can call it an increase of 25 percentage points.

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[-] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Yes. If you have a half full battery it's at 50% full.

If the charge goes up by 50% you get a 75% full battery.

If the charge goes up by 50 percentage points it goes up to 100%

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[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 119 points 2 months ago

They'll catch up over the next few months as we see a sharp decline in the value of the US dollar and Trump ending sanctions against them.

[-] jas0n@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

A couple people are saying things like that in this thread. Obviously not everyone is an economics expert. This really started crashing like 2 weeks ago, and they are very near a point of no return. What I'm saying is, they don't have months. This is kind of already game over.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Tbh I don't know shit about shit. I was just making a flippant prediction that's more about America than Russia.

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago

Only if they actually get a peace deal. Otherwise Russia still has EU sanctions and a war going on.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 89 points 2 months ago

I know we all want to believe Russia's economy is way worse than ever and almost back in the stone age by now, but if you look at the long term, unfortunately it's not that dramatic...

[-] 1609_kilometers 126 points 2 months ago
[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

You are both correct. A decade is a perfectly acceptable time frame by which to judge forex, however the two decade window fills in additional context.

[-] 1609_kilometers 48 points 2 months ago

True, but the way I see it, a graph shouldn't be cropped and left without a labeled y axis, especially when making a point about long term-ness.

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One narrative is about effectiveness of sanctions, specifically the ones levied at the start of 2022. Zooming out beyond 2015 doesn't really change that narrative (no appreciable effect tied with a change that happened in 2022).

The other narrative relates to Russia's big picture strategy. Undoubtedly by this measure, Russia is underperforming. We might conclude that the sanctions was effective only once, in 2014. Or just a bad economy for another reason that spurred war.

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

Perfect crop, comrade 🤡

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

So... basically when Crimea got stolen? I forget if that was also US sanctions, my selections memory remembers we were too soft on them back then.

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[-] andyburke@fedia.io 108 points 2 months ago

A ten year steady decline in the currency of a "world power" is no big deal. 👍

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the message I get is that a 10% one-day decline doesn't look like much on the tail end of 70% losses. Worthless paper is worthless.

[-] clucose@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

Russia has the same economy as Italy. We take them only seriously because of their nuclear weapons.

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

As an Italian.... Not sure if proud or embarrassed....

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[-] hairyfeet@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 months ago
[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago

No fair you’re not allowed to provide context

[-] Micromot@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What? I don't get how it disproves the graph from the other commenter or anything else

Edit: Oh I thought they were saying the first graph depicts it as worse than it is but it was the other way around which makes much more sense

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

The other commenter cropped their image right before the last massive drop in 2015

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[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

Perfect crop, comrade 🤡

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago

I mean, it being as low as it once was doesn't mean it is going great.

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 79 points 2 months ago

More like russian rubble , amirite?

They're called low hanging fruit for a reason

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[-] Emi@ani.social 62 points 2 months ago

I'll never understand how economies work, I just assume it's all imaginary money.

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago

All moneyis imaginary. Economics works by allowing some people with a lot of imaginary money to exploit (the planet and) people that depends on them by giving miniscule amounts of imaginary money, just enough to survive.

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 33 points 2 months ago

You're basically right anyway.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

Speaking basically they are right.
Speaking at medium understanding they are wrong.
Speaking at advanced understanding they are absolutely correct.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Think of it as demand, right now people want Russian money less.

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[-] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 47 points 2 months ago

Maybe I should convert some freedom dollars to rubles and wait for the orange man to make them valuable again in the next few months....

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 29 points 2 months ago

Well this is the most wall st bets sort of thing I have seen on lemmy.

Why would you think anything will go up under orange man? The guy who is kinda famous for being an isolationist? The guy using tariffs to wage economic war on the USs closest allies?

I mean with the same sort of logic, buy South African Rands.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you trade your USD for other currencies and the value of the dollar goes down against those currencies your get more dollars when you sell those other currencies for dollars. Thus this means that the value of the other currencies went up.

You get around 100 Rubles for every US dollar let’s say you buy 1000 Rubles with 10 dollars, if the value of the dollar goes to 50 Rubles (meaning the value of the Rubles went up) then you trade those 1000 Rubles back to dollars you’d get 20 US dollars.

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[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Heeeeeey.

This is how folks get rich right here. Crazy ideas like this.

Well, that or they lose everything. Let me know if you do it so I can cheer you on.

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[-] buttfarts@lemy.lol 26 points 2 months ago

uh oh

some truble

[-] kittenzrulz123 25 points 2 months ago

Fun fact: The ruble is worth only slightly more then shitcoin, I predict that soon it will overtake the ruble

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

What does it even matter if you can’t exchange it?

[-] Maxxie 18 points 2 months ago

All imported goods will be more expensive. So, like, everything.

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[-] Blackout@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago

That's the official trading rate. The black market rate is 1 ruble for an empty snickers wrapper.

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[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 16 points 2 months ago

That is terRuble

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

Just a little bit lower and it will be cheaper than the toilet paper it's made from, as it should be.

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Any indication of what changed?

[-] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

It’s probably not anything that recently changed. Economies are like rubber bands. They can stretch and run for a while in a deficit or without having proper upside cash flow while in a wartime economy, but eventually all of that has to come back. Russia has just had compounding economic problems (because they’re stupid) and now the hurting is starting to add up.

[-] Hubi@feddit.org 31 points 2 months ago

Russia is running out of reserves. They managed to boost the Ruble once before when they forced their remaining trading partners to switch to it. Now that they bought up pretty much everything there is, the value will continue go down. I've seen a lot of people predict that this would happen in 2025, so this may be the beginning.

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[-] noride@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

US announced new sanctions on Gazprombank. The free-fall is fear Russia will be unable to collect revenues for exported gas, which is a huge swathe of their GDP.

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