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TexasTowelie

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Sun Dec 24, 2023, 07:23 AM Dec 2023

Russian Ruble Collapse Has Damaged Economy - Oil & Gas Revenues Fall 63% as Russia Posts Huge Loss - Joe Blogs



RUSSIA's Economy has started to COLLAPSE as the impact of the Sanctions hit home. Russia's OIL & GAS Revenue is down 63% in the first 11 months of 2023 compared with the revenue Russia was earning prior to the invasion of Ukraine. In addition to this huge reduction in income Expenditure is continuing to increase due to the investment in the War, which means that the Russian Economy is now incurring massive LOSSES. In this video I provide more details of the figures and discuss the problems that Russia is now facing.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:44 MINISTRY OF FINANCE
2:52 OIL & GAS REVENUE
5:12 RUBLE
8:41 NON OIL & GAS INCOME
10:23 TOTAL REVENUE
11:43 EXPENDITURE
13:09 NET DEFICIT
15:40 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION
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Russian Ruble Collapse Has Damaged Economy - Oil & Gas Revenues Fall 63% as Russia Posts Huge Loss - Joe Blogs (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2023 OP
The great economist Dick Cheney said: keithbvadu2 Dec 2023 #1
I wouldn't repost Tiedrich's comment because it isn't accurate. TexasTowelie Dec 2023 #2

TexasTowelie

(112,721 posts)
2. I wouldn't repost Tiedrich's comment because it isn't accurate.
Sun Dec 24, 2023, 12:11 PM
Dec 2023

While the Trump administration had deficits and tax cuts that total to about one-quarter of the national debt at that time; about 75% of those deficits were somewhat baked in and were not a result of Trump's tax policies Taking some liberty with the rounding, the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy accounted for about $2 trillion of the $32 trillion debt which is about 6% rather than a quarter of our national debt.

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