kaonashi

if you're looking for a 'black swan' economic collapse event, look for a lot of outstanding debt and the possibility of an interest rate spike on that debt

It could easily have been a leak, and the Russia story was simply to deflect from the content of the leak.

>If a country or region has no power to devalue, and if it is not the beneficiary of a system of fiscal equalisation, then there is nothing to stop it suffering a process of cumulative and terminal decline leading, in the end, to emigration as the only alternative to poverty or starvation.

It seems to me, the US gov't no longer cares much for the new multiplier, so this is just a cynical way to put negotiating pressure on them.