RUSSIA on verge of econ crash

RUSSIA on verge of econ crash

#HedgeFundAlert   #SHORTruble

Ruble at 10 yr low, no support;

Ruble dropping for past 2 yrs,

Ruble crashing for past week;

As Ruble falls every thing becomes more expensive,

food, housing, gas & oil.

Expect riots in street, Russian people will blame

USA as Putin controls Russian Media and is painting

Ukrainian forces as Natzi's attacking Russian civilans.

Question becomes how long Putin can keep up

this lie, when will Russians wake up and smell

the coffee. 

Putin has made Russia’s rising prosperity and 
stable public finances the cornerstone of his appeal.

Russian stock market is poised for crash also.

Russian central bank says they can no longer afford
to support ruble.

Putin is not economist and doesn't understand 
the economic collapse he is facing and expects
to use media to blame USA and Stuxnet, this 
will have heavy blowback when Russian people
realize he has been lying to them about Ukraine. 

Reports filtering out about Russian troops deaths
in Ukraine and in Moscow hospitals.

Obama has some concept about Putins reaction
to his defeat on this issue and reaction to Russian
economic collapse, hense "no American troops
om ground in Ukraine", Putin will go nutz when
his game explodes in his face costing him and his 
cronies trillions in losses.

 Short interest on RUSSIAN STOCK MKT 
$1.46 billion. an all-time high= 21% hold 
shorts, #HEDGE FUNDS

Russia 'has an economy the size of Italy' http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jul/27/lindsey-graham
/graham-russia-has-economy-size-italy/


Russia’s 2013 nominal GDP was $2.1 trillion,
 and Italy’s was $2.07 trillion, according 
to the World Bank.

MOSCOW—Russia's economy grew 0.1% in the second quarter, meaning the country has avoided slipping into a technical recession, the economy ministry said Friday.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/russian-economy-avoids-slipping-into-recession-in-second-quarter-1406296121

Sanctions will force Putins cronies to move money out of the world stock markets or risk seizure, leaving only this Russian stock market for them to invest in,
thats another paradigm entirely.

And this is only the "Stock Market " part of the stuxnet/Sanctions
operation.
http://warintel.blogspot.com/2014/07/iranian-stuxnet-proving-ground-for-us.html

With Downgraded Debt, A Plunging Currency, And A Weak Stock Market Russia Is In Real Trouble http://onforb.es/1faGs6X  via @forbes

Russia’s economy is being hit hard by a credit crunch, capital flight, spiraling inflation and incipient recession. This will hurt Mr. Putin’s surging popularity at home. But none of this has deterred the smirking fool.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/arm-ukraine-or-surrender.html?_r=0

Russian debt rated BBB one level above Junk bonds.

Putin is gambling with Russian economy with a 
loosing hand over attempt to seize part of Ukraine,
and lying to Russian people about it.
Currently; “Essentially it’s as if Russians were handed a cookie and they are happy, but almost all of them forget they need bread or soup.”

GIVE THEM TIME, PUTIN WILL FALL.


Gerald

GERALD (center) floor NYSE

UPDATE SEPT 18 2014 3:28 AM EST